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trun⋅cate

  [truhng-keyt] verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing, adjective
Use truncate in a Sentence
–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.
4. 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 -ate 1

Related forms:
trun⋅cate⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. abridge, trim, curtail, abbreviate.
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trun·cate   (trŭng'kāt')   
tr.v.   trun·cat·ed, trun·cat·ing, trun·cates

  1. To shorten by or as if by cutting off. See Synonyms at shorten.

  2. To shorten (a number) by dropping one or more digits after the decimal point.

  3. To replace (the edge of a crystal) with a plane face.

adj.  

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

  2. 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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Word Origin & History

truncate 
1486, from L. truncatus "cut off," pp. of truncare "to maim, cut off," from truncus "mutilated, cut off" (see trunk).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

truncate trun·cate (trŭng'kāt')
v. trun·cat·ed, trun·cat·ing, trun·cates
To shorten by or as if by cutting off, especially by cutting across at right angles to the long axis.

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