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TRUNCATE

\tɹˈʌnke͡ɪt], \tɹˈʌnke‍ɪt], \t_ɹ_ˈʌ_n_k_eɪ_t]\

Definitions of TRUNCATE

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
mathematics: approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; of a series

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

To cut off; to lop; to maim.
TRUNCATION.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Appearing as if cut off at the tip. See Trunk.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

To cut off; to lop; to maim.
In bot., terminating abruptly as if cut off at the end.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

Appearing as if cut squarely off; having a top plane, as if cut evenly off.
To lop or end from.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

Truncated, cut across at right angles to the long axis, or appearing to be so cut.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

TRUNCATION.
To cut the top or end from.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

To cut short; maim.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

Terminating abruptly, as if the tapering end were cut off.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

To amputate; to deprive of limbs.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A term used in descriptive bacteriology, meaning terminating abruptly as if cut off at the end; flattened. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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