A solid such that the area 
of any section parallel to and a distance 
from a fixed plane can be expressed
as
The volume of such a solid is the same as for a prismatoid,
Examples include the cone, conical frustum, cylinder, prismatoid,
pyramidal frustum, sphere,
spherical segment, and spheroid.
See also
Prismatoid,
Prismoid
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References
Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 132,
1987.Kern, W. F. and Bland, J. R. "The General Prismatoid."
Ch. 8 in Solid
Mensuration with Proofs, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, pp. 120-130, 1948.Referenced
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