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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024trun•cat•ed (trung′kā tid),USA pronunciation adj. - shortened by or as if by having a part cut off;
cut short:an unnecessarily truncated essay. - Mathematics(of a geometric figure or solid) having the apex, vertex, or end cut off by a plane:a truncated cone or pyramid.
- Crystallography(of a crystal) having corners, angles, or edges cut off or replaced by a single plane.
- Biologytruncate (def. 4).
- Poetry[Pros.](of a line of verse) lacking at the beginning or end one or more unstressed syllables needed to fill out the metrical pattern.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: truncated /trʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/ adj - (of a cone, pyramid, prism, etc) having an apex or end removed by a plane intersection that is usually nonparallel to the base
- shortened by or as if by cutting off; truncate
trun•cate /ˈtrʌŋkeɪt/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], -cat•ed, -cat•ing. - to shorten by or as if by cutting off a part:to truncate his essay by deleting a few lines.
trun•ca•tion, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024trun•cate (trung′kāt),USA pronunciation v., -cat•ed, -cat•ing, adj. v.t. - to shorten by cutting off a part;
cut short:Truncate detailed explanations. - Mathematics, Computingto shorten (a number) by dropping a digit or digits:The numbers 1.4142 and 1.4987 can both be truncated to 1.4.
adj. - truncated.
- Biology
- square or broad at the end, as if cut off transversely.
- lacking the apex, as certain spiral shells.
- Latin truncātus (past participle of truncāre to lop), equivalent. to trunc(us) trunk + -ātus -ate1
- 1480–90
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged abridge, trim, curtail, abbreviate.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: truncate vb /trʌŋˈkeɪt; ˈtrʌŋkeɪt/- (transitive) to shorten by cutting off a part, end, or top
adj /ˈtrʌŋkeɪt/- cut short; truncated
- having a blunt end, as though cut off at the tip
Etymology: 15th Century: from Latin truncāre to loptrunˈcation n |