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Definition of Truncated pyramid
1. Noun. A frustum formed from a pyramid.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truncated Pyramid
Literary usage of Truncated pyramid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New Haven (Conn.). Board of Education (1883)
"Lay large and small squares to represent top view of truncated pyramid, ...
Lay peg pictures of common objects resembling the truncated pyramid. Draw. 3. ..."
2. The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design and Machinist's and by Charles A. Armengaud, William Johnson, Jules Amouroux (1854)
"truncated pyramid, 278. When we have only the frustum of a pyramid to deal with,
and the apex is not given, it is necessary to find the shadows cast both by ..."
3. A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs: Derived Entirely from the Monuments by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Henry Danby Seymour (1881)
"His is the gigantic tomb of well-hewn stone, like a truncated pyramid, that rises
solitary out of the ground in the midst of the desert to the north of the ..."
4. Observational Geometry by William Taylor Campbell (1899)
"CHAPTER XIII The Castle of Chillon A truncated pyramid I. IF you examine the
roofs of the two highest towers of the Castle of Chillon, you will see that ..."
5. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"To put a truncated pyramid in ... of the truncated pyramid will be completed.
Cor. If in a geometrical plane two concentric circles be ..."
6. Foreign Topography; Or, An Encyclopedick Account, Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1828)
"... upon this half a truncated pyramid, and above it a third of another, much
smaller. Grande Description, a. vol. iv. pi. 72. MIDEA (Greece, two hours and ..."
7. Principles of the Mechanics of Machinery and Engineering by Julius Ludwig Weisbach, Walter Rogers Johnson (1848)
"The centre of gravity of a truncated pyramid ... 12 ^ Now the solid contents of
the truncated pyramid are : = -= hence it follows finally that the distance ..."
8. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1901)
"It is a truncated pyramid, nearly 180 feet high above its The Pyramid of the Moon
occupies the immediate foreground in the panorama, A, and though now ..."
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