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Definition of Truncate

1. Verb. Replace a corner by a plane.

2. Adjective. Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off. "A truncated pyramid"

3. Verb. Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one. "Truncate a series"

4. Verb. Make shorter as if by cutting off. "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

Definition of Truncate

1. v. t. To cut off; to lop; to maim.

2. a. Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

Definition of Truncate

1. Verb. To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it. ¹

2. Verb. (mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop. ¹

3. Verb. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal). ¹

4. Adjective. truncated ¹

5. Adjective. (botany anatomy) Having an abrupt termination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Truncate

1. to shorten by cutting off a part [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Medical Definition of Truncate

1. To cut off or to appear to have been cut off. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truncate

trumpeting trumpetings trumpetless trumpetlike trumpetress trumpetresses trumpets trumpetweed trumpetwood trumpie

trumping trumpings trumplike trumps truncal truncate (current term) truncate ascertainment truncated truncated cone truncated icosahedra

truncated icosahedron truncated icosahedrons truncated pyramid truncates truncating truncation truncation error truncations trunch

Literary usage of Truncate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... to truncate-cordate at the base, yellow-green above, with 4-6 pairs of acute lobes; flowers about 2 cm. wide ; calyx-lobes entire; stamens about 10 ..."

2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"... elytra slightly dehiscent at tip. which is distinctly truncate. Unimpressed or indented spaces on the disc not deep as in the preceding, ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Akènes uval or oblong, truncate or emarginate, some of them usually wing-margined or bordered. ... Style-appendages truncate and penicillate. ..."

4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1899)
"Plates are short and truncate, and apparently easily shed, as they do not appear in the boiled specimens; in the untreated specimens there are from one to ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Tree: branchlets glabrous or more or less glandular: Ivs. broadly or deltoid-ovate, acuminate, truncate or broadly cuneate, sometimes subcordate at the base ..."

6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... truncate and minute hairy scales ; akènes ... cordate in outline, sometimes truncate at base, ..."

7. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"Calyx tube wide, broadly conical to truncate funnel-form. ... Form roundish ovate or inclined to oblong conic, sometimes roundish truncate. ..."

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