truncated

truncated
    adj 1: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her
           shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an
           unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn:
           {abbreviated}, {shortened}, {truncated}]
    2: 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}]
    

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.
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Truncated \Trun"ca*ted\, a.
   1. Cut off; cut short; maimed.
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   2. (Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when
      equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated
      edge.
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   3. (Zool.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells
      in which the apex naturally drops off.
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   {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.
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77 Moby Thesaurus words for "truncated":
      Spartan, 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, stumpy, succinct, summary, swaybacked, synopsized,
      taciturn, talipedic, terse, tight, to the point