Associations to the word «Truncate»

Wiktionary

TRUNCATE, verb. To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.
TRUNCATE, verb. (mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop.
TRUNCATE, verb. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
TRUNCATE, adjective. Truncated
TRUNCATE, adjective. (botany) (anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

Dictionary definition

TRUNCATE, verb. Replace a corner by a plane.
TRUNCATE, verb. Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series".
TRUNCATE, verb. Make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains".
TRUNCATE, adjective. Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn