Con vs Frustum - What's the difference?
con | frustum |
(rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
* Wordsworth
* Burke
* 1963 , D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories :
(rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
* 1579 , , Iune:
to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros ).
(slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
(slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
(nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through a channel etc. (rather than steer a compass direction)
(nautical) The navigational direction of a ship
A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.
* 1742 , Colin MacLaurin, A Treatise of Fluxions , Volume 1,
* 1809', '''''Frustum'' , entry in William Nicholson, ''The British Encyclopedia , Volume 3,
* 2006', Pawan Harish Nirnimesh, P. J. Narayanan, ''Culling an Object Hierarchy to a '''Frustum Hierarchy'', Prem Kalra, Shmuel Peleg (editors), ''Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: 5th Indian Conference, ICVGIP 2006 , Springer, LNCS4338,
* 2008 , R. Benjamin Davis, Techniques to Assess Acoustic-structure Interaction in Liquid Rocket Engines ,
A portion of a sphere delimited by two parallel planes.
* 1840 , James Blundell, Observations on Some of the More Important Diseases of Women ,
* 2014 , John Bird, Engineering Mathematics ,
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As nouns the difference between con and frustum
is that con is cone while frustum is a cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.con
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) connen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(conn)- Fixedly did look / Upon the muddy waters which he conned / As if he had been reading in a book.
- I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson.
- The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.''
- Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- pros and cons
Synonyms
* disadvantageAntonyms
* proEtymology 3
Shortened from (convict).Etymology 4
From (con trick), shortened from (confidence trick).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(conn)Synonyms
* (to be conned) be sold a pupEtymology 5
From earlier (cond), from (etyl) conduen, from (etyl) conduire, from (etyl) .Verb
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* conning tower * take the conEtymology 6
or (conference).See also
* cone * mod consAnagrams
* English three-letter words ----frustum
English
(wikipedia frustum) (Spherical segment)Noun
(en-noun)page 25,
- In a parabolic conoid this difference vani?hes, the fru?tum' being always equal to a cylinder of the ?ame height upon the ?ection of the conoid that bi?ects the altitude of the ' fru?tum and is parallel to its ba?es.
unnumbered page,
- This theorem holds good for complete solids as well as frustums , whether right or oblique.
page 252,
- However, when there are multiple view frustums (as in a tiled display wall), visibility culling time becomes substantial and cannot be hidden by pipelining it with other stages of rendering.
page 122,
- Here, the dynamics of the fluid-filled frusta' of cones are considered (see Figure 5.5). The ' frusta are clamped at their roots and free at their ends.
page 131,
- In some women it[the os uteri] is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere;.
page 183,
- Problem 22.' Determine the volume of a '''frustum''' of a sphere of diameter 49.74 cm if the diameter(sic) of the ends of the '''frustum''' are 24.0 and 40.0 cm, and the height of the ' frustum is 7.00 cm.