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Truncate

verb

(past & past part. truncated; pres. part. truncating)

Replace a corner by a plane.

Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one.

Make shorter as if by cutting off. Synonym: cut short. "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

adjective

Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off. Synonym: truncated. "Truncated volcanic mountains" , "A truncated pyramid"

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"Truncate" Quotes from Famous Books

... must, as Sir Wm. Hamilton used to say, 'truncate a problem which I cannot solve.' I must decline to sit in judgment on disputed points of art, morals, or religion. But without so doing I think there is such a thing as 'verifiable progress,' if we may say ...

— Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society • Walter Bagehot

... (see measurements). Color: Essentially as in Microtus montanus nanus. Skull: Small, slender, and comparatively smooth; rostrum moderately depressed distally; nasals moderately inflated distally and extending posteriorly not quite to tips of premaxillary tongues; nasals usually truncate posteriorly, but rounded in some individuals; premaxillary tongues terminating posteriorly in a short medial spine; zygomatic arches lightly constructed and usually more widely spreading posteriorly than anteriorly; interparietal comparatively long and terminating in a small, ...

— A New Subspecies of Microtus montanus from Montana and Comments on Microtus canicaudus Miller • E. Raymond Hall

... adjoining rooms[24] having been filled up with masonry. The height of the room is 2 meters. The roof has long since fallen in, and only one or two beams are left among the rubbish. To a height of 1.2 meters from the floor the wall is perfectly even and has the form of a cylinder, or rather of a truncate cone, as it leans slightly inward. The upper portion, on the other hand, is divided by six deep niches into the same number of pillars. The floor is of clay, hard, and perfectly even. Near the center is a round depression or hole, five-tenths of a meter deep ...

— The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff