TRUNCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truncate mean? 

• TRUNCATE (adjective)
  The adjective TRUNCATE has 1 sense:

1. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

  Familiarity information: TRUNCATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• TRUNCATE (verb)
  The verb TRUNCATE has 3 senses:

1. replace a corner by a plane

2. approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one

3. make shorter as if by cutting off

  Familiarity information: TRUNCATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUNCATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

Synonyms:

truncate; truncated

Context example:

a truncated pyramid

Similar:

short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)

• TRUNCATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they truncate    ... he / she / it truncates   
Past simple: truncated   
Past participle: truncated   
-ing form: truncating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Replace a corner by a plane

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "truncate" is one way to...):

exchange; interchange; replace; substitute (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items)

Domain category:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

truncate a series

Hypernyms (to "truncate" is one way to...):

approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make shorter as if by cutting off

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

cut short; truncate

Context example:

Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains

Hypernyms (to "truncate" is one way to...):

shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration)

"Truncate" entails doing...:

chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

truncation (the act of cutting short)

 Context examples 

This alteration yields a truncated cytochrome P450 2C8*7 protein that is enzymatically inactive.

(CYP2C8*7 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The truncated form of KISS1, metastin, inhibits chemotaxis and invasion of GPR54-transfected CHO cells in vitro and attenuates pulmonary metastasis of GPR54-transfected B16-BL6 melanomas in vivo.

(G Protein-Coupled Receptor 54, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration yields a truncated cytochrome P450 2D6*13 protein that is enzymatically inactive.

(CYP2D6*13 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration yields a truncated cytochrome P450 2D6*4 protein that is enzymatically inactive.

(CYP2D6*4 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration yields a truncated cytochrome P450 2D6*8 protein that is enzymatically inactive.

(CYP2D6*8 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration yields a truncated CYP2D6*6 protein that is enzymatically inactive.

(CYP2D6*6 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Deletions in the heavy chain genes on chromosome 14 disrupt the synthesis and secretion of properly functioning antibodies resulting in monoclonal populations of truncated heavy chains without covalently bonded light chains.

(Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Deletion, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of a truncated recombinant HER2/neu peptide (dHER2) combined with the immunoadjuvant AS15 with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(dHER2 Vaccine+AS15 Adjuvant, NCI Thesaurus)

A truncated transcript is generated utilizing a start site in a far downstream exon.

(FPS-FES Oncoprotein, NCI Thesaurus)

The recombinant human megakaryocyte growth and development factor (rHuMGDF) component of this formulation is a nonglycosylated, truncated form of the Mpl ligand.

(PEG Recombinant Human Megakaryocyte Growth and Development Factor, NCI Thesaurus)