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Frustum vs Null - What's the difference?

frustum | null |

As nouns the difference between frustum and null

is that frustum is a cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void".

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

frustum

English

(wikipedia frustum) (Spherical segment)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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, 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.
  • * 1809', '''''Frustum'' , entry in William Nicholson, ''The British Encyclopedia , Volume 3, unnumbered page,
  • This theorem holds good for complete solids as well as frustums , whether right or oblique.
  • * 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, 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.
  • * 2008 , R. Benjamin Davis, Techniques to Assess Acoustic-structure Interaction in Liquid Rocket Engines , 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.
  • A portion of a sphere delimited by two parallel planes.
  • * 1840 , James Blundell, Observations on Some of the More Important Diseases of Women , 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;.
  • * 2014 , John Bird, Engineering Mathematics , 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.

    Usage notes

    The misspelling frustrum is by incorrect analogy with frustrate, also of Latin origin. * (portion of a sphere) The portion of the surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes (i.e., the curved surface of a frustum) may be called a zone; however, that term is also sometimes used as a synonym of frustum .

    Derived terms

    * frustum culling * view frustum * viewing frustum

    References

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----