| VERB | possession | truncate | replace a corner by a plane |
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| cognition | truncate | approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | |
| change | truncate, cut short | make shorter / shorter as if by cutting off | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | truncate, truncated | terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off |
| Sounds | trah'ngkey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off. | |
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| Synonym | truncated | |
| Broader | short | (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length |
| Spanish | truncado | |
| Meaning | Replace a corner by a plane. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Category | geometry | The pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces |
| Broader | substitute, replace, interchange, exchange | put in the place of another |
| Nouns | truncation | the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces) |
| Meaning | Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "truncate a series" | |
| Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
| Broader | estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) |
| Meaning | make shorter / shorter as if by cutting off. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
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| Synonym | cut short | |
| Entails | cut off, chop off, lop off | Remove by or as if by cutting |
| Broader | shorten | make shorter / shorter than originally / originally intended |
| Spanish | acortar, atajar, desgastar, truncar | |
| Catalan | atallar, desgastar, escurçar, fer drecera, truncar | |
| Nouns | truncation | the act of cutting short |
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