Overview of verb truncate

The verb truncate has 3 senses

• truncate -- (replace a corner by a plane)


• truncate -- (approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series")


• truncate, cut short -- (make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains")

Overview of adj truncate

The adj truncate has 1 sense

• truncate, truncated -- (terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid")