Adjective: truncated ,trúng'key-tid or 'trúng,key-tid- Cut short in duration
"an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"; - abbreviated, shortened - Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
"truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"; - truncate Verb: truncate ,trúng'keyt or 'trúng,keyt or trung'keyt- Make shorter as if by cutting off
"Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"; "truncate a word"; - cut short - (geometry) replace a corner by a plane
- (mathematics) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
"truncate a series"
See also: short Type of: approximate, estimate, exchange, gauge, guess, interchange, judge, replace, shorten, sub [informal], substitute Encyclopedia: Truncated Truncate |