'Truncated' definitions:
Definition of 'truncated'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated, shortened, truncated]
adjective
Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: truncate, truncated]
Definition of 'Truncated'
From: GCIDE
- Truncate \Trun"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truncated; p. pr. & vb. n. Truncating.] [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See Trunk.] To cut off; to lop; to maim. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Truncated'
From: GCIDE
- Truncated \Trun"ca*ted\, a.
- 1. Cut off; cut short; maimed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off. [1913 Webster]
- Truncated cone or Truncated pyramid (Geom.), a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'truncated'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aposiopestic,
- bandy,
- bandy-legged,
- blemished,
- bloated,
- bowlegged,
- brief,
- brusque,
- butchered,
- castrated,
- clipped,
- close,
- club-footed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- cut short,
- defaced,
- deformed,
- disfigured,
- docked,
- dwarfed,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- flatfooted,
- garbled,
- gnomic,
- grotesque,
- hashed,
- ill-made,
- ill-proportioned,
- ill-shaped,
- knock-kneed,
- laconic,
- lopped,
- malformed,
- mangled,
- marred,
- misbegotten,
- misproportioned,
- misshapen,
- monstrous,
- mutilated,
- out of shape,
- pigeon-toed,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- pug-nosed,
- rachitic,
- reserved,
- rickety,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- simous,
- snub-nosed,
- Spartan,
- stumpy,
- succinct,
- summary,
- swaybacked,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- talipedic,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point