Definition of truncates Truncates
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What does truncates mean?
Part of speech
🔤- truncates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of truncate (infinitive).
WordNet
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| truncate - make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" | ||
| cut short | ||
| shorten become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten" | ||
| truncate - replace a corner by a plane | ||
| substitute, interchange, replace, exchange put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning" | ||
| geometry the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | ||
| truncate - approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series" | ||
| approximate, estimate, guess, judge, gauge be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own" | ||
| math, mathematics, maths a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement | ||
Adjectivetruncate, truncater, truncatest |
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| truncate - terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" | ||
| truncated | ||
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Wiktionary 
- truncate (Verb)
To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it. - truncate (Verb)
To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing or leading digits; to chop. - truncate (Verb)
To replace a corner by a plane or to make a similar change to a crystal. - truncate (Adjective)
truncated. - truncate (Adjective)
Having an abrupt termination.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- truncate (v. t.)
To cut off; to lop; to maim. - truncate (a.)
Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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truncate
trung′kāt, v.t. to cut off: to lop: to maim.—adjs. Trunc′ate, -d, appearing as if cut off at the tip: ending in a transverse line.—adv. Trun′cately.—n. Truncā′tion.—Truncated cone, pyramid, a cone, pyramid, having the vertex cut off by a line parallel to the base. [L. truncāre, -ātum—truncus.]
Part of speech
🔤- truncate, verb, present, 1st person singular of truncate (infinitive).
- truncate, verb (infinitive).
- truncate, adjective.
