frustum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In a parabolic conoid this difference vaniſhes, the fruſtum being always equal to a cylinder of the ſame height upon the ſection of the conoid that biſects the altitude of the fruſtum and is parallel to its baſes."
- "This theorem holds good for complete solids as well as frustums, whether right or oblique, and not only of the solids generated from the conic sections, but also of all pyramids, cones, and in short of any solid, whose parallel sections are similar figures."
- "Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices."
- "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."
- "Here, the dynamics of the fluid-filled frusta of cones are considered (see Figure 5.5). The frusta are clamped at their roots and free at their ends."
- "In some women it^([the os uteri]) is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere;[…]."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰrustós Proto-Italic *frustom Latin frustumbor. English frustum Borrowed from Latin frustum (“morsel”).
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
frustum culling
view frustum
viewing frustum