truncate

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /trʌŋˈkeɪt/
• (US) IPA: /ˈtrʌŋˌkeɪt/

Verb

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

1. To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.
2. (mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop.
3. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

Related terms

• trunk
• truncation

Synonyms

• (mathematics): round down

Translations

shorten something as if by cutting off part of it

• Bulgarian: подкосявам (bg) (podkosjavam)
• Dutch: afhakken (nl), afkappen (nl)
• Finnish: lyhentää (fi), typistää (fi), katkaista (fi)
• French: tronquer (fr)
• Greek: κονταίνω (el) (kontaíno) , περικόπτω (el) (perikópto) ,ακρωτηριάζω (el) (akrotiriázo) 

• Hungarian: csonkol (hu)
• Neapolitan: scurtà
• Russian: усекать (ru) (usekát’) 
• Spanish: truncar (es)

shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop

• Dutch: afronden (nl) naar (nl) beneden (nl)
• French: tronquer (fr)

• Greek: περικόπτω (el) (perikópto) 
• Portuguese: arredondar (pt)

replace a corner by a plane

Adjective

truncate (not comparable)

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

Translations

truncated

• Bulgarian: подкосен (bg) (podkosen)
• French: tronqué (fr) m, tronquée (fr) f,
• Greek: κολοβός (el) (kolovós) m , περικομμένος (el) (perikomménos) m 

• Russian :усечённый (ru) (usečjónnyj) (geometry)
• Spanish: truncado (es)

botany, anatomy: having an abrupt termination

• Greek: κολοβός (el) (kolovós) m , ακρωτηριασμένος (el) (akrotiriasménos) m 

• Russian: укороченный (ru) (ukoróčennyj) 

External links

• truncate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• truncate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Latin

Participle

truncāte

1. vocative masculine singular of truncātus