truncate
About 0.26 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.
- verb To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
- verb To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
- adjective Truncated.
- adjective Having an abrupt termination.
Similar words
cut short short lop obliquely posteriorly anteriorly clypeus trunc abridge curtail
Often followed by
the at or and in table to a apex
Word family
truncated truncates truncating truncation truncations
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