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Truncate   /trˈəŋkˌeɪt/   Listen
Truncate

verb
(past & past part. truncated; pres. part. truncating)
1.
Replace a corner by a plane.
2.
Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one.
3.
Make shorter as if by cutting off.  Synonym: cut short.  "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
adjective
1.
Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off.  Synonym: truncated.  "Truncated volcanic mountains" , "A truncated pyramid"





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... cylindrical, 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. Apex truncate, excavate. Perithecia linear, near apex of stroma. Asci (teste Montagne) linear, 8 spored. Spores (pale) spindle shape, dark, ...
— Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes - Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces • C. G. Lloyd
... relieving the pure spirit within us from its accumulated burdens, from debts and assets both equally oppressive. We cannot disentangle ourselves by mere frivolity, nor by suicide: frivolity would only involve us more deeply in the toils of fate, and suicide would but truncate our misery and leave us for ever a confessed failure. When life is understood to be a process of redemption, its various phases are taken up in turn without haste and without undue attachment; their coming and ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana
... tomentose. Flowers purple, solitary, terminal. Calyx, 5 sepals. Corolla, 5 petals. Stamens 5, united in the form of a tube. Ovary sessile, with 5 many-ovuled compartments. Styles 5, united in the form of a tube which divides into 5 stigma-bearing branches. Capsule membranous, 5-angled, truncate, dehiscent at apex. Seeds albuminous, covered with ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera


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