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Truncate

verb

(past & past part. truncated; pres. part. truncating)

Replace a corner by a plane.

Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one.

Make shorter as if by cutting off. Synonym: cut short. "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

adjective

Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off. Synonym: truncated. "Truncated volcanic mountains" , "A truncated pyramid"

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... less flexible animals of medium size. The general form is elongate and cylindrical or somewhat smaller anteriorly. The posterior end is broadly rounded, the anterior end somewhat truncate and oblique. The peristome is broad and triangular, the base of the triangle being the entire anterior end of the body. The entire length of the peristome is one-fourth or less of the body length. The mouth is large and placed at the apex of the peristomial triangle and opens into a ...

— Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 • Gary N. Galkins

... through cultivation, troublesome, otherwise with the exception of two ravines, at one of which the horses were taken out of the guns, very good: valley narrow, say three miles, the boundary ridges to the north presenting as it were, truncate faces to the valley, all the mountains at certain heights are ...

— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith

... lines. Shining black: head and thorax coarsely punctured, the metathorax ruggedly sculptured, truncate at the apex, the truncation and sides smooth with a few fine punctures; the abdomen closely and rather finely punctured, the apical margins of the segments smooth and shining. The tips of the mandibles, the ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... small, extending slightly farther forward than carapace; anterior lobe truncate with slight midventral indentation; posterior lobe rounded, sides forming acute angle; certain features of bony elements of plastron visible through overlying skin; width of bony bridge, 4.5 mm; maximum length of plastron, ...

— Description of a New Softshell Turtle From the Southeastern United States • Robert G. Webb