Definition of Truncate

Verb: truncate  ,trúng'keyt or 'trúng,keyt or trung'keyt

1. Make shorter as if by cutting off
   "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"; "truncate a word";
   - cut short
    
2. (geometry) replace a corner by a plane
    
3. (mathematics) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
   "truncate a series"

Adjective: truncate  ,trúng'keyt or 'trúng,keyt or trung'keyt

1. Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
   "a truncate leaf";
   - truncated

See also:
trumps
truncated

Anagrams containing the word truncate

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