1. Make shorter as if by cutting off
   "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"; "truncate a word";
   - cut short
    
2. (mathematics) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
   "truncate a series"
    
3. (geometry) replace a corner by a plane
   "They truncated the cube to create a new polyhedron"; "The architect truncated the building's sharp corners for a softer look"

1. Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
   "a truncate leaf";
   - truncated

Derived forms: truncated, truncates, truncating

See also: short

Type of: approximate, estimate, exchange, gauge, interchange, judge, replace, shorten, sub [informal], substitute

Encyclopedia: Truncate