truncate
adjEtymology From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.
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Truncated.
truncate
verbUK /tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/ · US /ˈtɹʌŋˌke̯ɪ̯t/
Etymology From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.
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To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
- The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.
- All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845-46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11½-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:
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Mathematics, Sciences To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
- Synonyms
- round down
- Derived terms
- retruncate, subtruncate, truncatedly, truncately, truncateness
- Related terms
- trunk, truncation, dual polyhedron