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From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.

truncate (third-person singular simple present truncates, present participle truncating, simple past and past participle truncated)

  1. (transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
    The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.
    • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:
      All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845-46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11½-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.
  2. (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
  3. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

shorten something as if by cutting off part of it

shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop

replace a corner by a plane

truncate (not comparable)

  1. Truncated.
  2. (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

truncated

truncāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of truncātus

truncate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of truncar combined with te

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