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FRUSTUM (Latin for a " piece broken off ")

FRUSTUM (Latin for a " piece broken off ") , a See also:

TERM

term in See also:

GEOMETRY

geometry for the See also:

PART

part of a solid figure, such as a See also:

CONE (Gr. Kwvos)

cone or See also:

PYRAMID

pyramid, cut off by a See also:

PLANE

plane parallel to the See also:

BASE

base, or lying between two parallel planes; and hence in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture a name given to the See also:

DRUM (early forms drome or dromme, a word common to many Teut. languages, cf. Dan. tromme, Ger. Trommel: the word is ultimately the same as " trumpet," and is probably onomatopoeic in origin; it appears late in Eng. about the middle of the 16th century)

drum of a See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

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