frustulumn.
Obsolete.
a. A fragment, an atom.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece > very small piece
pointc1300
smitc1330
tittlea1450
scraplet1519
jot1526
splinter1609
bitling1674
shredling1674
frustulum1700
rissom1808
smitch1822
fractionlet1830
scrapling1843
pick1866
parcel1873
scrappet1901
1700 S. Parker 6 Philos. Ess. 109 Nor yet could each such Frustulum have been so modify'd and temper'd as we find, unless by the same.
b. Mathematics. A small frustum.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > formed by cutting solid
segment of a sphere1570
sector of a sphere1656
frustum1658
truncated cone or pyramid1704
frustulum1785
wedge1883
1785 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 241 Suppose a rectangular cone cut into frustula by..planes perpendicular to the axis.
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