truncate

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

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

truncate (third-person singular simple present truncates, present participle truncating, 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).

• (mathematics): round down

• trunk
• truncation

• (geometry): dual polyhedron

truncate (not comparable)

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

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

truncāte

1. vocative masculine singular of truncātus