Frustum

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What Wikipedia says

In geometry, a frustum (pl. frusta or frustums), is the portion of a solid (normally a pyramid or a cone) that lies between two parallel planes cutting the solid. In the case of a pyramid, the base faces are polygonal and the side faces are trapezoidal.

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