element of a cone

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   a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base

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Questions about element of a cone

What does element of a cone mean?

element of a cone means "a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base".

Is element of a cone a common word?

element of a cone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.