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Truncated   /trˈəŋkˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Truncated

adjective
1.
Cut short in duration.  Synonyms: abbreviated, shortened.  "Her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking" , "An unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
2.
Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off.  Synonym: truncate.  "Truncated volcanic mountains" , "A truncated pyramid"


Truncate

verb
(past & past part. truncated; pres. part. truncating)
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.  Synonym: cut short.  "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"



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"Truncated" Quotes from Famous Books



... disappointment that the heat of that first flame had partly spoiled the reflector. Still, my range of vision now extended to the belly-band in the horses' harness. The light that used to show me the road for about fifty feet in front of the horses' heads gave a short truncated cone of great luminosity, which was interesting and looked reassuring; but it failed to reach the ground, for it was so adjusted that the focus of the converging light rays lay ahead and not below. Before, therefore, the point of greatest luminosity ...
— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove
... A noticeable instance of the use of a common word in the original and obsolete sense of its derivation may be cited from the unfortunately truncated and scanty fragment of a prayer for the court: "Oh Lord, be thou a husband" (house-band) "to that ...
— The Age of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... of destiny had he come to marry her? The quality of his surroundings mingled in some way with the quality of his thoughts. The huge distended buildings of corrugated iron in which the Art Museum (of all places!) culminates, the truncated Oratory all askew to the street, seemed to have a similar quarrel with fate. How in the name of destiny? After ...
— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells
... not be explained, Some, could not be excused; And others, "Leave it unrestrained, Gehenna's self is loosed." And all cried "Crush it, maim it, gag it! Set dog-toothed lies to tear it ragged, Truncated ...
— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... Cairo. Near its entrance the canal was crossed by a dam of earth, very broad at the bottom and diminishing in breadth upwards, which used to be constructed before or soon after the Nile began to rise. In front of the dam, on the side of the river, was reared a truncated cone of earth called the 'arooseh or "bride," on the top of which a little maize or millet was generally sown. This "bride" was commonly washed down by the rising tide a week or a fortnight before the ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer


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