truncate

/'trʌɳkeit/

Thân thiện

The editor had to truncate the article to fit the page.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To shorten something by cutting off a part, especially the top or end.
   • To shorten a number, text, or data set by removing less significant digits, terms, or elements from the end.

2. Adjective:

   • (Mainly in technical contexts like biology, geometry, computing) Describing something that appears as if its end or apex has been cut off, ending abruptly in a flat plane.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:

  • The editor had to truncate the article to fit the word limit.
  • The software will automatically truncate the decimal, changing 3.14159 to 3.14.
  • Glaciers can truncate mountain spurs, creating steep cliff faces.

• Adjective:

  • The species has a truncate leaf with a squared-off tip.
  • In geometry, a truncate pyramid has a flat top parallel to its base.

Advanced Usage

• In Computing/Data Science: Refers to cutting off a sequence of data or text at a specific point, often losing the remainder.

  • The database query truncates the timestamp, removing the milliseconds.
  • If the field is too short, the system will truncate the user's input.

• In Mathematics: To approximate a number or series by discarding all terms beyond a certain place value or term.

  • You can truncate the infinite series after the first five terms for a rough estimate.

Variants and Related Words

• Truncated (Adjective): The more common adjectival form.

  • A truncated meeting ended abruptly.
  • She gave a truncated version of the story.

• Truncation (Noun): The act or process of truncating.

  • Data truncation can sometimes lead to loss of important information.

Synonyms

• Verb: Shorten, cut, curtail, abbreviate, lop off.
• Adjective: Shortened, abbreviated, blunt, flat-topped.

Antonyms

• Verb: Elongate, extend, lengthen, expand.
• Adjective: Pointed, tapered, elongated.

Related Phrases and Technical Terms

• Truncate error: (Mathematics/Computing) The error introduced by truncating an infinite process or number.
• Truncated cone/truncated pyramid: (Geometry) A cone or pyramid with the apex cut off by a plane parallel to the base.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
   • a truncate leaf
   • truncated volcanic mountains
   • a truncated pyramid

Verb

1. make shorter as if by cutting off
   • truncate a word
   • Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains
2. approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
   • truncate a series
3. replace a corner by a plane

Từ đồng nghĩa

• truncated
• cut short