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Truncated cone   /trˈəŋkˌeɪtɪd koʊn/   Listen
adjective
Truncated  adj.  
1.
Cut off; cut short; maimed.
2.
(Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.
3.
(Zool.) Lacking the apex; said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
Truncated cone or Truncated pyramid (Geom.), a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.





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"Truncated cone" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tower of St. Romain, in Rouen cathedral, light it on either side; and saints, placed under canopies, ornament the angles behind the buttresses. A second tower, to the west, is surmounted with a truncated cone. The south porch,[182] here figured, is the great feature of the exterior; and, for beauty and elegance in the formation or disposition of its parts, it may safely be put in competition with any similar portion of an ecclesiastical ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... of extraordinary strength; and in its construction it differs wholly from any of our English dungeon-towers.—It may be described as a cylinder, placed upon a truncated cone. The massy perpendicular buttresses, which are ranged round the upper wall, from which they project considerably, lose themselves at their bases in the cone from which they arise. The building, ...
— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2) • Dawson Turner
... running northwest and southeast, and about half that in width. Out of this massive base rise the two Ararat peaks, their bases being contiguous up to 8800 feet and their tops about seven miles apart. Little Ararat is an almost perfect truncated cone, while Great Ararat is more of a broad-shouldered dome supported by strong, rough-ribbed buttresses. The isolated position of Ararat, its structure of igneous rocks, the presence of small craters and immense volcanic fissures on its slopes, and the ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben


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