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frustum

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 2006, Pawan Harish Nirnimesh, P. J. Narayanan, Culling an Object Hierarchy to a Frustum Hierarchy, Prem Kalra, Shmuel Peleg (editors), Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: 5th Indian Conference, ICVGIP 2006, Springer, LNCS4338, page 252, However, when there are multiple view frustums (as in a tiled display wall), visibility culling time becomes substantial and cannot be hidden by pipelining it with other stages of rendering.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: solid

Narrower terms: truncated pyramid, truncated cone

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frustum (“morsel”).

Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: пресечен конус (presečen konus) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Bulgarian: пресечена пирамида (presečena piramida) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Catalan: tronc — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Chinese Mandarin: 平截頭體 /平截头体 (píngjié tóutǐ) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Finnish: katkaistu kartio — truncated cone or pyramid
  • French: tronc — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Galician: tronco — truncated cone or pyramid
  • German: Kegelstumpf — truncated cone or pyramid
  • German: Stumpf — truncated cone or pyramid
  • German: Pyramidenstumpf — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Greek: κόλουρος κώνος (kólouros kónos) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Greek: κόλουρη πυραμίδα (kólouri pyramída) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Hindi: छिन्नक (chinnak) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Hungarian: csonka test — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Hungarian: csonka kúp — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Hungarian: csonka gúla — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Icelandic: stúfur — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Italian: tronco — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Korean: 절두체 (jeolduche) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Māori: motuhanga pūtake — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Russian: усечённая пирами́да f pyramid (usečónnaja piramída) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Russian: усечённый ко́нус m cone (usečónnyj kónus) — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Spanish: tronco — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Spanish: tronco de geometría — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Spanish: tronco geométrico — truncated cone or pyramid
  • Turkish: kesik koni — truncated cone or pyramid