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adjective
- 1. shortened in duration or extent: "his truncated career"
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TRUNCATED definition: 1. made shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end of something: 2. made shorter or…. Learn more.
The meaning of TRUNCATED is cut short : curtailed. How to use truncated in a sentence.
to make something shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end of it: Television coverage of the event was truncated by a technical fault. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making smaller or less. abridgment. attenuated. attenuating. attenuation. compress. contraction. dwindle. dwindling. ease someone's mind idiom.
Truncated definition: shortened by or as if by having a part cut off; cut short. See examples of TRUNCATED used in a sentence.
The earliest use of truncate is as an adjective describing something (such as a leaf or feather) with the end squared off as if it had been cut. It makes sense, then, that the verb refers to shortening things. The word comes from Latin truncare ("to shorten"), which traces to truncus ("trunk").
In the context of math, to truncate is to shorten a number by dropping some of the digits after the decimal place. For example, 1.524 can be truncated to 1.5. Less commonly, truncate can be used as an adjective with the same meaning as truncated —shortened, as if having had a portion cut off.
to make something shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end of it: Television coverage of the event was truncated by a technical fault. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making smaller or less. abridgment. attenuated. attenuating. attenuation. compress. contraction. dwindle. dwindling. ease someone's mind idiom.
truncated in British English. (trʌŋˈkeɪtɪd ) adjective. 1. mathematics. (of a cone, pyramid, prism, etc) having an apex or end removed by a plane intersection that is usually nonparallel to the base. 2. (of a crystal) having edges or corners cut off. 3. shortened by or as if by cutting off; truncate.
When an object is truncated, its end or point is cut off, like a truncated arrow that is safe for kids to play with. Truncated can also refer to something that ends earlier than planned — everyone was angry at the truncated concert until they learned that the singer had broken his leg when he fell on stage.
Truncated definition: shortened by or as if by having a part cut off; cut short. See examples of TRUNCATED used in a sentence.
