verb
- Replace a corner by a plane.
- synonyms: truncate
- Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one.
- usage: "truncate a series"
- synonyms: truncate
- Make shorter as if by cutting off.
- usage: "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
adjective
- Cut short in duration.
- usage: "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- synonyms: abbreviated, shortened
- Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off.
- usage: "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"
- synonyms: truncate
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