The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truncated \Trun"ca*ted\, a.
Cut off; cut short; maimed.
(Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.
-
(Zo["o]l.) 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.
WordNet
n. a frustum formed from a pyramid
Usage examples of "truncated pyramid".
He is thinking, whimsically, that hardly anybody realizes that the shape of the room is the same as the truncated pyramid on the dollar bill, or guesses what that means.
Silk led them up about three levels and then began circling the truncated pyramid.
He was clinging to a small, truncated pyramid section that had made a moderate-sized crater when it landed.
It was mostly intact, the four towers, slanting together, forming a truncated pyramid.
The flat top of the truncated pyramid was in fact quite large, with plenty of room for statues, priests, slabs, gutters, knife-chipping production lines and all the other things the Tezumen needed for the bulk disposal of religion.
Its sides were about a hundred feet long and twenty feet high, and they slanted in at sixty degrees to create a squat, truncated pyramid.
Schematics of Skull's topographical scans had revealed that Tiresia's Royal Hall was an enormous structure indeed, a truncated pyramid almost a thousand feet tall capped by a classical Roman-like shrine.
It had the shape of an irregularly truncated pyramid about three stories high, and appeared to be made of glass.
The four towers slanted in toward each other and the truncated pyramid in their midst, like the petals of a cubist flower that hadn't fully opened yet.