Truncated

Word TRUNCATED
Character 9
Hyphenation trun ca ted
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Truncated"

What do we mean by truncated?

Having the apex cut off and replaced by a plane, especially one parallel to the base. Used of a cone or pyramid. adjective

Lacking one or more syllables, especially in the final foot; catalectic. adjective

Shortened or reduced. adjective

Cut off; cut short; maimed. adjective

Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces. adjective

Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off. adjective

A cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of truncate. verb

Cut short in duration adjective

Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off adjective

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

To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.

To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

Whilst in the act of sexual intercourse with another, one partner defecates into the pee-hole of the other. Urban Dictionary

To cut, sever, or otherwise remove forcefully. Windows XP style of defining castration. Urban Dictionary

To load an object into the trunk. Urban Dictionary

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The word "truncated" in example sentences

On ABC's "This Week," where he is a regular contributor, Krugman makes the same arguments, albeit in truncated form. ❋ Howard Kurtz (2010)

He took the stage shortly after 1 a.m. and lingered for a meager 25 minutes, delivering his lovelorn songs in truncated forms that didn't give the singer or his smitten fans much of a opportunity to get comfortable. ❋ Chris Richards (2010)

So now, whenever I post something at LiveJournal, that latest post will be displayed (in truncated form) on my private site. ❋ Shawnj (2004)

It is likely the structural changes would prevent fins from correctly forming, resulting instead in short, truncated fins, the authors suggest. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He took the stage shortly after 1 a.m. and lingered for a meager 25 minutes, delivering his lovelorn songs in truncated forms that didn’t give the singer or his smitten fans much of a opportunity to get comfortable. ❋ Chris Richards (2010)

He also knew a great deal about history, which he used in his "Time Patrol" stories—the one here has a title casually truncated from Cato, "Delenda Est" the missing Latin word is "Carthago". ❋ Tom Shippey (2011)

The politicos come down for what we've come to call a truncated "stations of the cross": a levee-break, a school, and the Lower Ninth Ward. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After writing yesterday about the Democrats' predictable paranoia setting in over those infernal electronic voting machines that have already been programmed to bring wins to Republicans across the country, and of the right-wing conspiracy to have Jim Webb's name truncated on certain voting machines in heavily Democratic cities here in Virginia, I receive the following email: ❋ Unknown (2006)

The echo of distant songs, the din of the market, and the cadence of the language itself—Creole—each word truncated to fit the meter of West African speech. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Built invariably solely of stone and without mortar, in form the brochs were circular, and have been described as truncated cones with the apex cut off, [7] and their general plan and elevation were everywhere almost uniform. ❋ James Gray (N/A)

"Every team has a lot of games and that's just the reality," Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said, referring to the truncated schedule stemming from the long NBA lockout. ❋ Unknown (2012)

If the North, which is insisting that power should revert back to it to complete its two terms truncated by the death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, gets back to power in 2011, what is the guarantee that it would not insist on another term. ❋ Unknown (2010)

New South Asia map drawn by Americans show Pak a truncated territory ❋ Unknown (2008)

But Evans' team never found a Compton reflection hump in the x-ray emission given off by 3C 33, a finding the researchers believe provides crucial evidence that the accretion disk for a black hole with a jet is truncated, meaning it doesn't extend as close to the center of the black hole with a jet as it does for a black hole that does not have a jet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Interestingly, The Lord of the Rings' appendices which take up well over a hundred pages of the published book were supposed to be considerably longer and more detailed, and Tolkien despaired over their 'truncated' state. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)

* Bercovici posts back at us -- The Ethics of Citizen Journalism, Pt. 2 -- saying that, yes, his paraphrase of what I said was pathetic (actually "truncated" was all he would cop to) and also making the curious point that he couldn't have a guild mentality. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is a 'truncated' stripped, edited post by Fred Wilson, seed investor in del. icio.us (I wonder what features they have coming out, now they've had a few months of seed capital - I'm almost at 1000 items!) ❋ Ben Barren (2005)

There's a kind of truncated Camarasaurus skeleton, but the geometry's correct. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[Guess what] happened yesterday, I got Alex to [truncate] [in me]! ❋ Jimmy Schmitzzer (2010)

That [file] was so corrupt even [XP] knew it needed to be truncated, [AOL] is like a living virus! ❋ Screenamehere012 (2003)

"Hey [Billy], come [truncate] this [dead guy]!" ❋ Quacks (2005)

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