Defenition of the word truncate
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Defenition of the word truncate
- replace a corner by a plane, in geometry
- make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
- terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"
- approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"
- replace a corner by a plane
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
- terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
Synonyms for the word truncate
Similar words in the truncate
Hypernyms for the word truncate
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- approximate
- estimate
- exchange
- gauge
- guess
- interchange
- judge
- replace
- shorten
- substitute
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