frustum
Americannoun
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the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base.
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the part of a solid, as a cone or pyramid, between two usually parallel cutting planes.
noun
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geometry
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the part of a solid, such as a cone or pyramid, contained between the base and a plane parallel to the base that intersects the solid
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the part of such a solid contained between two parallel planes intersecting the solid
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architect a single drum of a column or a single stone used to construct a pier
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Etymology
Origin of frustum
1650–60; < Latin: piece, bit; probably akin to Old Irish brúid (he) breaks, Old English brȳsan to crush
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Figure 2.42 A frustum of a cone can approximate a small part of surface area.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Figure 6.42 A frustum of a cone can approximate a small part of surface area.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Figure 2.44 Calculating the lateral surface area of a frustum of a cone.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Figure 6.44 Calculating the lateral surface area of a frustum of a cone.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms the upper part of a strong wooden box, shaped like the frustum of a pyramid.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
However, a better understanding of the mechanics of the shared interfaces on the sides of cells will be needed before cell shapes more complex than prisms and frusta can be modelled accurately in three dimensions6.
From Nature ● Sep. 9, 2018
It is possible for 3D shapes resembling frusta to form tubes.
From Nature ● Sep. 9, 2018
For epithelia on a sphere, surface curvature is the same in all directions, and inverted frusta are expected.
From Nature ● Sep. 9, 2018
Prisms, frusta and scutoids found in single-cell layered epithelia are discrete classes of shape, but belong in a continuum of cell shape and 3D arrangement.
From Nature ● Sep. 9, 2018
I did not see any marks of the frusta of the columns having been joined by iron hooks, as at Palmyra.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
The second row of hoops is shrunk on forward of the trunnion hoops for a length of 38 inches to strengthen the gun, and the hoop portion forms three conical frustums.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various
Reinforces made the gun look like "three frustums of cones joined together, so as the lesser base of the former is always greater than the greatest of the succeeding one."
From Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Manucy, Albert
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