Usually means: Shorten by cutting off part.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word truncate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. truncate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. truncate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. truncate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. truncate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. truncate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Truncate, truncate: Wordnik
  7. truncate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. truncate: Wiktionary
  9. truncate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. truncate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. truncate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. truncate: Dictionary.com
  13. truncate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Truncate (SQL), Truncate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Truncate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. truncate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. truncate: Rhymezone
  18. truncate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. truncate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. truncate: Free Dictionary
  21. truncate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. truncate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. truncate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. truncate: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. truncate: Netlingo
  2. Truncate: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. truncate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Truncate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. truncate: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  5. truncate: Medical dictionary
  6. Truncate: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Truncate: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. truncate: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. truncate: Mussel Glossary
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Truncate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See truncated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
verb:  (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
verb:  (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
adjective:  Truncated.
adjective:  (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

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