truncate
verb/tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/UK/ˈtɹʌŋˌke̯ɪ̯t/US/tɹäŋˈkæɪ̯t/
Etymology
From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.
- derived from truncātus
Definitions
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.
To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
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Truncated.
Having an abrupt termination.
The neighborhood
- synonymround down
- neighbortrunk
- neighbortruncation
- neighbordual polyhedron
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for truncate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA