FRUSTUM (frusta)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: frusta   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does frustum mean? 

• FRUSTUM (noun)
  The noun FRUSTUM has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: FRUSTUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUSTUM (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)