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trun·cat·ed

[truhng-key-tid] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	shortened by or as if by having a part cut off; cut short: an unnecessarily truncated essay.

2.	(of a geometric figure or solid) having the apex, vertex, or end cut off by a plane: a truncated cone or pyramid.

3.	Crystallography. (of a crystal) having corners, angles, or edges cut off or replaced by a single plane.

4.	Biology. truncate (def. 4).

5.	Prosody. (of a line of verse) lacking at the beginning or end one or more unstressed syllables needed to fill out the metrical pattern.

[Origin: 1480–90; truncate + -ed²

]

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trun·cate

[truhng-keyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -cat·ed, -cat·ing, adjective

–verb (used with object)

1.	to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.

2.	Mathematics, Computers. to shorten (a number) by dropping a digit or digits: The numbers 1.4142 and 1.4987 can both be truncated to 1.4.

–adjective

3.	truncated.

Biology.

a.	square or broad at the end, as if cut off transversely.

b.	lacking the apex, as certain spiral shells.

[Origin: 1480–90; < L truncātus (ptp. of truncāre to lop), equiv. to trunc(us) trunk + -ātus -ate¹

]

—Related forms

trun·cate·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 1. abridge, trim, curtail, abbreviate.

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trun·cate (trŭng'kāt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. trun·cat·ed, trun·cat·ing, trun·cates

To shorten by or as if by cutting off. See Synonyms at shorten.
To shorten (a number) by dropping one or more digits after the decimal point.
To replace (the edge of a crystal) with a plane face.

adj.

Appearing to terminate abruptly, as a leaf of a tulip tree or a coiled gastropod shell that lacks a spire.
Truncated.

[Latin truncāre, truncāt-, from truncus, trunk; see terə-² in Indo-European roots.]

trun'cate'ly adv., trun·ca'tion n.

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trun·ca·ted (trŭng'kā'tĭd) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Having the apex cut off and replaced by a plane, especially one parallel to the base. Used of a cone or pyramid.
1. Lacking one or more syllables, especially in the final foot; catalectic.
2. Lacking an initial or final syllable. Used of a line of verse.
Truncate.

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truncated
adjective
1.	cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated]
2.	terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: truncate]

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Truncated

Trun"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truncated; p. pr. & vb. n. Truncating.] [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See Trunk.] To cut off; to lop; to maim.

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