truncate

Verb

Verb Forms: truncated, truncating, truncates

• To shorten something by cutting off the top or end.
• replace a corner by a plane
• approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
  • "truncate a series"
• make shorter as if by cutting off
  • "truncate a word"
  • "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
• To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
• 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).

Adjective Satellite

• terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
  • "a truncate leaf"
  • "truncated volcanic mountains"
  • "a truncated pyramid"

Adj

• Truncated.
• Having an abrupt termination.

Examples

• He had to ’truncate’ his long word idea when he realized he only had space for a shorter one.
• The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.

Synonyms

cut short, truncated, round down

Related Words

dual polyhedron, truncation, trunk

Anagrams of truncate