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truncate - Dictionary definition and meaning for truncate

TRUNCATE

  • (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off

    "truncate a word", "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

    synonyms : cut short

  • (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one

    "truncate a series"

  • (verb) replace a corner by a plane

  • (adj.) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

    "a truncate leaf", "truncated volcanic mountains", "a truncated pyramid"

    synonyms : truncated

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Mnemonics for truncate

  • (Tag: english) trunc(TRUNK) + cate(CUT).....when you CUT the TRUNK OF THE tree, by cutting the top off, you make it SHORT.

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  • (Tag: ) trunCAT(NEAR TO CUT)+E.......and when you CUT something ,YOU SHORTEN things.

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  • (Tag: ) TRUNCATE or ABBREVIATE which are rhyming words, mean, to cut something short, to make precise or shorten.

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  • (Tag: ) TRUNK+ATE-shorten

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  • (Tag: ) Cut short to fit in a trunk(Box)= Trunk+Cut

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