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| | cone |
 | | A shape (its name comes from the Greek konos for pinecone) that has a circular or elliptical base and a vertex, also known as an apex, lying outside the plane of the base and that is formed from all the line segments joining points on the edge of the base to the vertex. |
 | | If the base is a circle, the shape is a circular cone; if the line, or axis, from the center of the base to the vertex is perpendicular to the base, then it is a right cone (an ice-cream cone is a right circular cone); otherwise it's an oblique cone. |
 | | Another way to think of a cone is as a surface of revolution generated by a line that rotates around a fixed point, at a fixed angle from another line (the axis), both lines passing through that fixed point. |
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