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Definition of truncate

[with object]

1 (often as adjective truncated) shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end:a truncated cone shape discussion was truncated by the arrival of tea

2 Crystallography replace (an edge or an angle) by a plane, typically so as to make equal angles with the adjacent faces.

Botany & Zoology

(of a leaf, feather, or other part) ending abruptly as if cut off across the base or tip.

Derivatives

late 15th century (earlier (Middle English) as truncation): from Latin truncat- 'maimed', from the verb truncare

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