truncate

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /tɹaŋˈkæɪt/

truncate (third-person singular simple present truncates, present participle truncating, simple past and past participle truncated)

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

   The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.

   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:

     All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845-46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11½-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.

2. (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
3. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

• (mathematics): round down

• trunk
• truncation

• (geometry): dual polyhedron

truncate (not comparable)

1. Truncated.
2. (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

• “truncate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “truncate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

truncāte

1. vocative masculine singular of truncātus

truncate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of truncar combined with te