truncate
truncate Lexical Profile
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• verb
To shorten something by, or as if by, cutting off the top or the end.
"The television network decided to truncate the broadcast to make room for breaking news."
To terminate a number or character string at a specified point by dropping trailing digits or characters without rounding (in mathematics and computing).
"The database will automatically truncate any username that exceeds twenty characters."
To replace the corners or edges of a solid or crystal with plane surfaces (in geometry and crystallography).
"You can form an Archimedean solid if you truncate the vertices of a regular cube."
• adjective
Ending abruptly as if cut off square at the tip or base, especially of a leaf, feather, or shell (in biology).
"The botanist identified the specimen by its broad, truncate leaves."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 15th century from Latin truncatus, the past participle of truncare ('to maim, mutilate, or cut off'), derived from truncus ('maimed' or 'tree trunk').