truncate

IPA: trˈʌŋkeɪt

(transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
(mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
(geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

Examples of "truncate" in Sentences

Alternatively you could always press the "truncate" button which will remove all chats from the database.
"People like to truncate things in order to understand them but in reality there's no clear delineation."
It turns out that CAD software will calculate a convergance, but truncate the lines at the edge of the world as the software knows it.
This breathtaking maneuver would provide Walter Ulbricht, the East German leader, with the authority to truncate Berlin and stop the stampede of refugees.
But in January 2011, HCL said, News International asked whether HCL was capable of helping "truncate" - meaning delete - "a particular database" in the e-mail system.
"We have a real problem if members of the General Assembly are going and trying to influence and truncate an ethics committee process so that they can get the intended result that they want and then use that for impeachment," he said.
Young still strongly believes in the new ship, even as the Navy seeks to "truncate" the number it buys from seven ships to three and return to building Arleigh Burke DDG 51-class Aegis destroyers, which the Navy leadership claims are needed to combat new threats like ballistic missiles that the DDG 1000s weren't designed to defeat.