Truncate \Trun"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truncated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Truncating.] [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut
off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See
Trunk.]
To cut off; to lop; to maim.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Truncated \Trun"ca*ted\, a.
1. Cut off; cut short; maimed.
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2. (Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when
equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated
edge.
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3. (Zool.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells
in which the apex naturally drops off.
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Truncated cone or Truncated pyramid (Geom.), a cone or
pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane
being usually parallel to the base.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
truncated
adj 1: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a
curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the
result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated
conversation" [syn: abbreviated, shortened]
2: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or
point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic
mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: truncate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "truncated":
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, bandy, bandy-legged,
blemished, bloated, bowlegged, brief, brusque, butchered,
castrated, clipped, close, club-footed, compact, compendious,
compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut,
cut short, defaced, deformed, disfigured, docked, dwarfed,
elliptic, epigrammatic, flatfooted, garbled, gnomic, grotesque,
hashed, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, knock-kneed,
laconic, lopped, malformed, mangled, marred, misbegotten,
misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape,
pigeon-toed, pithy, pointed, pruned, pug-nosed, rachitic, reserved,
rickety, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, simous,
snub-nosed, stumpy, succinct, summary, swaybacked, synopsized,
taciturn, talipedic, terse, tight, to the point
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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