truncated
IPA: trˈʌŋkeɪtɪd
adjective
- Deprived of one of its parts or of its end.
- Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip.
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Examples of "truncated" in Sentences
- I truncated the string on my bag.
- It is the limit of the truncated geometric series.
- That was the reason for their just emendation of the truncated text.
- On ABC's "This Week," where he is a regular contributor, Krugman makes the same arguments, albeit in truncated form.
- So now, whenever I post something at LiveJournal, that latest post will be displayed (in truncated form) on my private site.
- The politicos come down for what we've come to call a truncated "stations of the cross": a levee-break, a school, and the Lower Ninth Ward.
- It is likely the structural changes would prevent fins from correctly forming, resulting instead in short, truncated fins, the authors suggest.
- The echo of distant songs, the din of the market, and the cadence of the language itself—Creole—each word truncated to fit the meter of West African speech.
- He also knew a great deal about history, which he used in his "Time Patrol" stories—the one here has a title casually truncated from Cato, "Delenda Est" the missing Latin word is "Carthago".
- He took the stage shortly after 1 a.m. and lingered for a meager 25 minutes, delivering his lovelorn songs in truncated forms that didn't give the singer or his smitten fans much of a opportunity to get comfortable.
- He took the stage shortly after 1 a.m. and lingered for a meager 25 minutes, delivering his lovelorn songs in truncated forms that didn’t give the singer or his smitten fans much of a opportunity to get comfortable.
- Built invariably solely of stone and without mortar, in form the brochs were circular, and have been described as truncated cones with the apex cut off, [7] and their general plan and elevation were everywhere almost uniform.
- After writing yesterday about the Democrats' predictable paranoia setting in over those infernal electronic voting machines that have already been programmed to bring wins to Republicans across the country, and of the right-wing conspiracy to have Jim Webb's name truncated on certain voting machines in heavily Democratic cities here in Virginia, I receive the following email:
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