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Definition of Truncating
1. truncate [v] - See also: truncate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truncating
Literary usage of Truncating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Differentiation of a Secondary Magma Trough Gravitative Adjustment by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1906)
"In every case the contact surface dips away from the granodiorite, plunging under
sandstone or argillite and truncating the beds. ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries: Including by James Dwight Dana (1854)
"15), and another truncating an edge of a cube, (f. 17). This plane truncating an
angle has the ratio 1:1:1. For a plane 1:2:2, the times will be each \p, ..."
3. A Treatise on the External Characters of Fossils by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1805)
"... by extending the truncating planes we shall have the fourth crystallization,
or the double tetrahedral pyramid with truncated angles, in which therefore ..."
4. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"The two edges of the larger truncating planes, and the truncating planes of ...
The broader lateral planes of the prism, and the truncating planes of the ..."
5. A Treatise on the External Characters of Minerals by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1850)
"... and which may be considered cither as a deeply-truncated octahedron, or as a
deeply-truncated cube : by extending the truncating planes we shall have ..."
6. An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy by William Phillips, Henry James Brooke, William Hallows Miller (1852)
"The faces r, * truncating the edge an, d truncating ee, h truncating ee", l, f
truncating ae, were all very narrow. Cleavage, a, c. Transparent. ..."
7. A Treatise on the External, Chemical and Physical Characters of Minerals by Robert Jameson (1817)
"These new planes are named truncating Planes, and the edges which they form with
the other planes truncating Edges. t We have here to observe what relates ..."
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