truncated

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adjective
  1. shortened by or as if by having a part cut off; cut short: an unnecessarily truncated essay.

  2. (of a geometric figure or solid) having the apex, vertex, or end cut off by a plane: a truncated cone or pyramid.

  1. Crystallography. (of a crystal) having corners, angles, or edges cut off or replaced by a single plane.

  2. Prosody. (of a line of verse) lacking at the beginning or end one or more unstressed syllables needed to fill out the metrical pattern.

Origin of truncated

1
First recorded in 1480–90; truncate + -ed2

Other words from truncated

  • sub·trun·cat·ed, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for truncated

truncated

/ (trʌŋˈkeɪtɪd) /


adjective
  1. maths (of a cone, pyramid, prism, etc) having an apex or end removed by a plane intersection that is usually nonparallel to the base

  2. (of a crystal) having edges or corners cut off

  1. shortened by or as if by cutting off; truncate

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