frustum noun2 •A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. — 1974 •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;[…]. — 1840 formsfrusta · frustums