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Meaning of "frustum" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FRUSTUM

From Latin: piece; probably related to Old English brӯsan to crush, bruise.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FRUSTUM

ˈfrʌstəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRUSTUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Frustum is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FRUSTUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Frustum

In geometry, a frustum is the portion of a solid that lies between two parallel planes cutting it. The term is commonly used in computer graphics to describe the three-dimensional region which is visible on the screen, the "viewing frustum", which is formed by a clipped pyramid; in particular, frustum culling is a method of hidden surface determination. In the aerospace industry, frustum is the common term for the fairing between two stages of a multistage rocket, which is shaped like a truncated cone.

Definition of frustum in the English dictionary

The first definition of frustum in the dictionary is the part of a solid, such as a cone or pyramid, contained between the base and a plane parallel to the base that intersects the solid. Other definition of frustum is the part of such a solid contained between two parallel planes intersecting the solid. Frustum is also a single drum of a column or a single stone used to construct a pier.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FRUSTUM

accustom · atom · autumn · bottom · Chatham · custom · datum · disaccustom · ecosystem · item · momentum · phantom · quantum · re-accustom · subsystem · symptom · system · Tatum · totem · ultimatum

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRUSTUM

frumpishness · frumple · frumpy · Frunze · frusemide · frush · frust · frusta · frustrate · frustrated · frustrater · frustrating · frustratingly · frustration · frustule · frutescence · frutescent · frutex · fruticose · frutify

WORDS THAT END LIKE FRUSTUM

ad libitum · angular momentum · arboretum · erratum · factum · infinitum · Khartum · multum · Paestum · postpartum · rectum · sanctum · scrotum · scutum · septum · sputum · stratum · stum · substratum · tum

Synonyms and antonyms of frustum in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «frustum» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FRUSTUM

Find out the translation of frustum to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of frustum from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frustum» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

视锥
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

frustum
570 millions of speakers
en

English

frustum
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

छिन्नक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المخروط الناقص
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

усеченный
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

frustum
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

frustum
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

tronc
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Frustum
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Stumpf
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

錐台
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

절두체
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Frustum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình cụt
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

அடிக்கண்டம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

निराश
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

frustum
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

tronco
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

ścięty
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

усічений
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

trunchi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

frustum
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stomp keel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stympad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frustum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of frustum

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRUSTUM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about frustum

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRUSTUM»

Discover the use of frustum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frustum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Engineering Mathematics
A cooling tower is in the form of a frustum of a cone. The base has a diameter of 32.0 m, the top has a diameter of 14.0m and the vertical height is 24.0 m. Calculate the volume of the tower and the curved surface area 4. A loudspeaker ...
John Bird, 2014
2
Engineering Drawing
Draw an isometric projection of a frustum of the pentagonal pyramid with a 40 mm base side, 20 mm top side and 35 mm height resting on its base in the H.P. 4. The frustum of a sphere with a 60 mm diameter and frustum circle with a 40 mm ...
Basant Agrawal, 2008
3
Understanding Engineering Mathematics
The radii of the faces of a frustum of a cone are 2.0 cm and 4.0 cm and the thickness of the frustum is 5.0cm. Determine its volume and total surface area. 2. A frustum of a pyramid has square ends, the squares having sides 9.0cm and 5.0 cm, ...
John Bird, 2013
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Geometric Modeling: Techniques, Applications, Systems and Tools
3.2.1 View-Frustum Culling for Terrain Data The view-frustum is a pyramid ( generally chopped off using front and rear planes perpendicular to the viewing direction) and is based on the viewing parameters of the application. View- frustum ...
Muhammad Sarfraz, 2004
5
Elements of plane (solid) geometry (Higher geometry) and ...
The solidity of the frustum of a cone is equal to the sum of the solidities of three cones whose common altitude is the altitude of the frustum, and whose bases are , the upper bases of the frustum, the lower base of the frustum, and a mean ...
Nathan Scholfield, 1845
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Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming
We need to test whether any vertex is inside the frustum while keeping in mind that a box with all vertices outside the frustum can still be visible if it totally encloses it. Here is one of the possible tests for such a routine: bool Cube InFrus tum ...
Daniel Sánchez-Crespo Dalmau, 2004
7
3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes
As explained in Section 6.2, once the near plane is pushed out far enough, a single frustum covers a large distance with adequate depth precision. The scene is rendered starting with objects overlapping the frustum farthest from the viewer,  ...
Patrick Cozzi, Kevin Ring, 2011
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Software Engineering and Computer Systems, Part II: Second ...
Frustum works like a light source which means its volume will change if part of it is occluded by any of the 3D objects inside the environment. An object inside the 3D environment is said to be visible from the source of the frustum if any line ...
Jasni Mohamad Zain, Wan Maseri Wan Mohd, Eyas El-Qawasmeh, 2011
9
Mesuration and Elementary Solid Geometry for Schools
Also VQ9- = PiV2 + .V§2=400 + 225 = 625. .-. r§=25, Yq _nq 9^ 3 .-. 1? = 15. and since The dimensions of both cones VPQ and Vpq having been found, we can get the volume and the curved surface of the frustum by taking the difference in the ...
10
Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics
The algorithm for computing the distance from a point to an orthogonal frustum is based on determining the Voronoi regions for the faces, edges, and vertices of the frustum. Given a set of objects, the Voronoi region for a single object is the set  ...
Philip Schneider, David H. Eberly, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRUSTUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term frustum is used in the context of the following news items.
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The chat is broken... again!
"Yo mama so fat, she can't be frustum culled." - yoshi_lol. "One objection to a “critique of C#” would be that you can't talk about C# without ... «GameDev.net, Jul 15»
2
How Does Unreal Engine 4's Rendering Engine Stand Out
... deferred and forward lighting, shadow mapping, ambient occlusion, frustum culling, occlusion culling, screen space particles, multi-threading, ... «GameDev.net, Jul 15»
3
Uses for unordered access views?
e.g. a shader can dynamically choose to emit particles (or not), another shader can frustum cull particles (producing a variable sized, smaller ... «GameDev.net, Jul 15»
4
Best technique for lighting
With Indirect rendering in theory you can also perform frustum culling on the GPU but you will risk unbalancing the bottleneck too much to the ... «GameDev.net, Jun 15»
5
Procedural Cloud Rendering
For my sky I used world space frustum corners and created it as a post-process. I would like to do the same for the clouds somehow. «GameDev.net, Jun 15»
6
"Reverse" frustum culling?
I think your problem is identical to voxelising the frustum shape, so perhaps you could direct your google searches in that direction. «GameDev.net, Feb 15»
7
Geometric approach to finding 8 points of the view frustum?
1. fc is the center of the far plane of the view frustum. 2. p is the position of the camera. 3. d is the direction of the camera view. 4. farDist is the ... «GameDev.net, Feb 15»
8
Frustum Culling
as in another post in this forum Spiro L. told me that frustum culling is done on the CPU (and has to be implemented therefore manually). «GameDev.net, Jan 15»
9
Instanced rendering and frustum culling.
Frustum culling chooses a coherent region of the world. It is generally a contiguous region, roughly in the shape of a trapezoid. Provided you ... «GameDev.net, Jan 15»
10
view frustum culling particle effects?
Google, the last post of this topic is over 60 days old and at this point you may not reply in this topic. If you wish to continue this conversation ... «GameDev.net, Nov 14»
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