frustum

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin frustumbor. English frustum Borrowed from Latin frustum (“morsel”).

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

   “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.”

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

   “In some women it^([the os uteri]) is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere;[…].”

   “Problem 22. Determine the volume of a frustum of a sphere of diameter 49.74 cm if the diameter^([sic]) of the ends of the frustum are 24.0 and 40.0 cm, and the height of the frustum is 7.00 cm.”