TRUNCATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does truncate mean?
• TRUNCATE (adjective)
The adjective TRUNCATE has 1 sense:
1. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
Familiarity information: TRUNCATE used as an adjective is very rare.
• TRUNCATE (verb)
The verb TRUNCATE has 3 senses:
1. replace a corner by a plane
2. approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
3. make shorter as if by cutting off
Familiarity information: TRUNCATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• TRUNCATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
Synonyms:
truncate; truncated
Context examples:
a truncate leaf / truncated volcanic mountains / a truncated pyramid
Similar:
short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)
• TRUNCATE (verb)
Meaning:
Replace a corner by a plane
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "truncate" is one way to...):
replace; substitute (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items)
Domain category:
geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
truncate a series
Hypernyms (to "truncate" is one way to...):
approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make shorter as if by cutting off
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
cut short; truncate
Context examples:
truncate a word / Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains
Hypernyms (to "truncate" is one way to...):
shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration)
"Truncate" entails doing...:
chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
