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 truncated

The adj truncated has 2 senses

• abbreviated, shortened, truncated -- (cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation")


• 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")