Definitions for truncate

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truncate trun·cate

Spelling: [truhng-keyt]

IPA: /ˈtrʌŋ keɪt/

Truncate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 284 anagrams from letters in truncate (acenrttu).

Definitions for truncate

adjective

1. truncated.
2. Biology. square or broad at the end, as if cut off transversely. lacking the apex, as certain spiral shells.

verb (used with object)

1. to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short:
2. Mathematics, Computers. to shorten (a number) by dropping a digit or digits:

Origin of truncate

1480-90; Latin truncātus (past participle of truncāre to lop), equivalent to trunc(us) trunk + -ātus -ate¹

Examples for truncate

The truncate, cone-shaped breach has often been of great use to me.

The foot tapers behind to a sharp point, and is truncate in front.

The fourth glume is very narrow, truncate, 3-nerved, paleate.

truncate, with the end as if cut off square; as in Fig. 136.

In Catabrosa the glumes are truncate, as if bitten off at the top.

Something traumatic causes a person to truncate himself or herself in that way.

Abdomen half as long as the thorax, also of irregular and oblique form, with knee-shaped outline and a wide, truncate mouth.

The regular, circular pores are in the campanulate thorax scarcely half as broad as in the truncate, gradually dilated abdomen.

Tree upright, leafy, very productive; leaves large, truncate.

The upper margin of the cephalothorax is not rounded, but truncate.