truncate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪt/

Verb

truncate (third-person singular simple present truncat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle truncated)

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

Synonyms

• (mathematics): round down

Related terms

• trunk
• truncation

Translations

shorten something as if by cutting off part of it

• Bulgarian: подкосявам (bg) (podkosjavam)
• Catalan: truncar (ca)
• Dutch: afhakken (nl), afkappen (nl)
• Finnish: lyhentää (fi), typistää (fi), katkaista (fi)
• French: tronquer (fr)
• Greek: κονταίνω (el) (kontaíno)
• Hungarian: csonkol (hu)
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• Italian: troncare (it)
• Maori: mutumutu, auporo
• Neapolitan: scurtà
• Portuguese: truncar
• Russian: усека́ть (ru) (usekátʹ)
• Spanish: truncar (es)
• Vietnamese: cắt xén (vi)

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

• Dutch: afronden (nl) naar (nl) beneden (nl)
• Finnish: katkaista (fi), typistää (fi)
• French: tronquer (fr)
• Greek: περικόπτω (el) (perikópto)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: trunkigar (io)
• Portuguese: arredondar (pt)
• Spanish: truncar (es)

replace a corner by a plane

• Finnish: typistää (fi)
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• Ido: trunkigar (io)

See also

• (geometry): dual polyhedron

Adjective

truncate (not comparable)

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

Translations

truncated

• Bulgarian: подкосен (bg) (podkosen)
• Finnish: lyhennetty (fi), typistetty, katkaistu (fi)
• French: tronqué (fr) m, tronquée (fr) f,
• Greek: κολοβός (el) m (kolovós), περικομμένος (el) m (perikomménos)
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• Portuguese: truncado (pt)
• Russian: усечённый (ru) (usečónnyj)(geometry)
• Spanish: truncado (es)

botany, anatomy: having an abrupt termination

• Greek: κολοβός (el) m (kolovós), ακρωτηριασμένος (el) m (akrotiriasménos)
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• Russian: укоро́ченный (ru) (ukoróčennyj)

Further reading

• “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.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) truncāte

1. vocative masculine singular of truncātus