truncate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

   A truncate leaf.

2. 2
   verb

   make shorter as if by cutting off

   Truncate a word.

3. 3
   verb

   approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one

   Truncate a series.

4. 4
   verb

   To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.

   The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.

From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.

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