Truncate

Definition: Truncate

Truncate

Adjective

1. Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid".

Verb

1. Replace a corner by a plane, in geometry.

2. Make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "truncate" was first used: 1486. (references)

Science

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Truncate

Amorphism

Verb: deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange; blemish, mar.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Crosswords: Truncate

Expressions using "truncate": truncate cone ♦ truncate pyramid. Additional references.

Afrikaans

vermink (top). (various references)

Albanian

shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, undercut, whittle down), pres majë (cut back, obtruncate, trim), kufizoj (circumscribe, confine, enclose, hedge in, hem, inclose, limit, localise, localize, narrow, restrain, restrict, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate, tie), heq majë, cungoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبتور (felled, hewn), ‏ناقص (amiss, bid, defective, deficient, deprecatory, faulty, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, incorrect, insufficient, minus, nude, odd, reducible, revoked, scant, sketchy, unfinished, wanting), ‏شذب (cut, cut back, lop, manicure, pare, prune, refine, tip, trim), ‏بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, maim, mangle, mutilate, mutilation, resect, resection, stump, take off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, slash, take off, terminate), съкратен (compact, contracted, summary), скъсен (stubbed), отрязвам крайчеца на, отрязвам върха на, отрязан (cut off, poll), окастрям (cut down, emasculate, pare off, prune), пресечен (curdy), пресичам (come across, congeal, cross, cut across, go over, intercross, interrupt, intersect, intervene, overpass, pass through, passage, transect, traverse). (various references)

Chinese 

截平. (various references)

Czech

zkomolený (corrupt, garbled), osekat (hew off), okleštit. (various references)

Danish

afskåret. (various references)

Dutch

afknotten (top). (various references)

Esperanto

stumpigi (top), sensuprigi (top), senpintigi (top). (various references)

Farsi 

ناقص کردن (Mar, Mutilate), شاخه زدن , بی سرکردن (Decollate). (various references)

Finnish

typistetty, tylppä (blunt, dull, obtuse). (various references)

French

tronqué (truncated). (various references)

German

kappen (caponize, clip, cut, cutting, overthrow, to clip, top, turn, turn over, upset), abgestumpft (blunted, deadened, dulled, indifferent, insensitive, jaded, truncated). (various references)

Greek 

κόλουρο(επίπεδο), κουτσουρεύω (mutilate), κολοβώ (scrimp, snub), κολοβόσ (snag, tailless, truncated). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקטום (lop off, sever). (various references)

Hungarian

megcsonkít (castrate, mutilate, to dismember, to maim, to mangle, to mutilate, to stump, to truncate), levág (amputate, butcher, cut down, cut off, exscind, hewed, hewn, immolate, lop, resect, shear, slaughter, to chop off, to crop, to cut away, to cut down, to excise, to hew, to hew away, to hew down, to lop away, to nick sy for sg, to nip, to pare away, to shave, to shave off, to slaughter, to slice off, to sting sy for sg). (various references)

Italian

troncare (break off, cut off, prevent, throttle), tronca, mozzare (crop, cut off, dock, scoot, scram, snip). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

切捨てる (to cast away, to cut down, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate), 切り捨てる (to cast away, to cut down, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりすてる (to cast away, to cut down, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate). (various references)

Manx

giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip). (various references)

Pig Latin

uncatetray

Portuguese

truncado (abrupt, truncated). (various references)

Romanian

trunchia (detruncate, emasculate, garble), ciunti (amputate, cripple, top). (various references)

Russian 

усекать, укорачивать (abbreviate, detruncate, shorten), округлять (round off, rounding, round-off), обрезать (circumcise, clip, cut off, obtruncate, pare, prune), прерывать (break, cut short, decease and desist, discontinue, heckle, intercept, intercut, intermit, interrupt, leave off, punctuate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zarubiti (chamfer, lop), skratiti (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut short, detruncate, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, syncopate, telescope), okrnjiti (impair). (various references)

Spanish

truncar (garble, mangle, obtruncate), truncado (felled, truncated). (various references)

Swedish

avkorta (condense, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Turkish

tepesini kesmek (poll), tepesi kesik, ucunu kesmek, ucu kesik, kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, wrap it up, wrap up), budamak (amputate, chip, chop off, cut, cut back, lop, nip, nip off, pare, poll, Pollard, prune, prune away, prune off, trim). (various references)

Ukrainian

урізувати (ax, axe, castrate, curtail, lop away, lop off, pare, scant, scrimp, shorten), спотворити, зрізувати верхівку. (various references)

truncatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "truncate": truncated, truncates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Truncate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brancati, Roncato, trancate, Trengate, Trongate, trucate, Truchart, truncatew, truncuate, trunicate, trunkate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: centaur, curtate, taunter, uncrate.

-2 letters: acuter, attune, canter, carnet, centra, curate, cutter, natter, nature, nectar, nutate, nutter, ratten, recant, tanrec, tauten, tauter, trance, truant.

-3 letters: acute, antre, caner, caret, carte, cater, centu, crane, crate, cruet, curet, cuter, enact, eruct, nacre, rance, react, recta, recut, tacet, tater, taunt, tecta, tetra, trace, tract, treat, truce.

+1 letter: reductant, reluctant, truncated, truncates, utterance.

+2 letters: counteract, eructating, eructation, reductants, scattergun, tentacular, utterances.

+3 letters: anticruelty, contracture, counteracts, counterpart, countryseat, curtailment, eructations, natriuretic, reluctantly, reluctating, reluctation, scatterguns, traducement, translucent, uncastrated, uncertainty, unreluctant.

+4 letters: accouterment, accoutrement, carburetting, congratulate, contractures, counteracted, counteragent, counterblast, counterparts, counterstain, counterstate, countertrade, countryseats, curtailments, encrustation, inarticulate, interfaculty, natriuretics, neutralistic, putrefaction, quattrocento, reluctations, reticulating, reticulation, traducements, unattractive, uncontracted, undistracted.