Frustum

Quick meaning: Frustum is a noun meaning A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.

Meaning

A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.

More Meanings

1. A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes.

Example Sentences

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices.

In some women it^([the os uteri]) is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere;[…].

Here, the dynamics of the fluid-filled frusta of cones are considered (see Figure 5.5). The frusta are clamped at their roots and free at their ends.

Problem 22. Determine the volume of a frustum of a sphere of diameter 49.74 cm if the diameter^([sic]) of the ends of the frustum are 24.0 and 40.0 cm, and the height of the frustum is 7.00 cm.

Word Forms

• frustums
• frusta

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conic, bifrustum, quadricone, trihedron, pyramid, scutoid.

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