[syn: truncate, truncated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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