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  • noun Common misspelling of frustum.

Etymologies

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Incorrect analogy with frustrate, also of Latin origin.

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Examples

  • ARMD finally moves out on something not a the shape of a frustrum looks like some work on the WTR in hypersonics, very cool!

    X-51 Waverider Set to Fly This Fall - NASA Watch 2009

  • Freedom as "Moksha" : a study of the conical philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the conical frustrum philosophy of Sri Aurobindo by Jill Elizabeth Parker

    Towards a new world-order by Ambalal Bhailalbhai Patel Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Freedom as "Moksha" : a study of the conical philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the conical frustrum philosophy of Sri Aurobindo by Jill Elizabeth Parker

    Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Freedomas "Moksha": a study of the conical philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the conical frustrum philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

    J.D. Salinger's Silence Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Freedomas "Moksha": a study of the conical philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the conical frustrum philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • It is about 65 feet square at the base, and is the frustrum of a pyramid, truncated at about 140 feet.

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 Various

  • When the cone is completed, convert it into a low frustrum of a cone by drawing stuff uniformly and in a direct line from the centre to the circumference.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • Thus isolated, it is visible from afar, and forms a conspicuous feature of the landscape; all the more remarkable on account of its singular shape, which is the frustrum of a cone.

    Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

  • Little did Fritz suspect, while swimming across the straits to rejoin his masters, that the huge quadruped which had so frequently given him chase was at that moment so very near him; and that his own claws, while cutting the water, came within an inch of scratching that terrible trunk, now _truncated_ to a _frustrum_ of its former self!

    The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

  • Other sample words listed in the "Key to the Pronunciation" (ix) are Marathi, loofah, borax, gatling, discrepant, bodega, opulent, endue, and frustrum -- not exactly words you find around the house.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1 1983

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