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FRUSTUM
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Irregular inflected form: frusta
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("frustum" is a kind of...):
solid (a three-dimensional shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frustum"):
truncated pyramid (a frustum formed from a pyramid)
truncated cone (a frustum formed from a cone)