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Meaning of truncate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  truncate
      adj 1: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or
             point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic
             mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: {truncate},
             {truncated}]
      v 1: replace a corner by a plane
      2: approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one;
         "truncate a series"
      3: make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word";
         "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" [syn:
         {truncate}, {cut short}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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