Definitions for frustum

frustum frus·tum

Spelling: [fruhs-tuh m]
IPA: /ˈfrʌs təm/

Frustum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in frustum (fmrstuu).

Definitions for frustum

noun

  1. the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base.
  2. the part of a solid, as a cone or pyramid, between two usually parallel cutting planes.

Origin of frustum

1650-60; Latin: piece, bit; probably akin to Old Irish brúid (he) breaks, Old English brȳsan to crush

Examples for frustum

Then follows, in most textbooks, a theorem relating to the volume of a frustum.

A stick of timber is in the shape of the frustum of a square pyramid, the lower base being 22 in.

This leads to the corollary concerning the lateral area of the frustum of a regular pyramid.

The vessel proper was a cylinder; its base, a plane; its top, the frustum of a cone, surmounted by a tower upon a tower.

It was built in the form of a frustum of a pyramid, and was fifty-four feet square at the bottom and six feet square at the top.

The solids divided in given ratios are the sphere, the pyramid, the cone and a frustum thereof.

Wa'al, jest cut off the top, and what's left will be the frustum.

The top of the piston forms the frustum of the cone and the pistons are 110 mm.

It is 56 feet high from the rock to the platform or balcony floor, and its shape is the frustum of a cone.

If the upper base is equal to the lower base, the frustum becomes a cylinder, and still the proposition remains true.

Word Value for frustum
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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