Truncated : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Truncated	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
truncated adj cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" Synonym(s): abbreviated, shortened, truncated terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" Synonym(s): truncate, truncated
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Truncated \Trun"cated\, a. 1. Cut off; cut short; maimed. 2. (Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated* edge. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off. {Truncated cone} [or] {pyramid} (Geom.), a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Truncate \Trun"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Truncated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Truncating}.] [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See {Trunk}.] To cut off; to lop; to maim.