Thesaurus: truncated

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1. imp. & p. p. of Truncate
2. a. Cut off; cut short; maimed.
3. a. Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.
4. a. Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
5. adj. cut short in duration
6. adj. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
7. 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. (Zoöl.) 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.
8. Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equallyinclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.
9. j:100 v replace a corner by a plane v approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one v make shorter as if by cutting off s cut short in duration s terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off