: a protective cone constituting the forward end of an aerospace vehicle
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The collision appears to have sheared off the plane’s nose cone.—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026 The body tube, nose cone and fins come in attractive black and orange colors and the set includes stickers to add to the decorations.—Alexander Cox, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026 But lidar systems are still too bulky and expensive to fit into a plane’s nose cone.—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 The first reason is that the nose cone (radome) is massive, with the current radar system sitting low, not centered within it, and there is a big structural bulkhead above it.—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nose cone