Conable

/ˈkoʊnəbəl/ adjective

Definition

Capable of being coned; able to be shaped into a cone or conical form.

Etymology

From the noun cone (from Latin conus, from Greek konos) plus the suffix -able meaning 'capable of.' This is a modern English construction for describing geometric properties.

Kelly Says

Ice cream cones work because waffle dough is beautifully conable—but mathematicians discovered that some shapes are theoretically impossible to cone perfectly, which matters for calculus and engineering!

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