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单词 truncate
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truncateadj.

/ˈtrʌŋkeɪt/
Etymology: < Latin truncātus, past participle of truncāre : see truncate v.
1. Cut short, mutilated. Obsolete (except as in 2).
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1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 62 Augustines wordes, not truncately and by peece meale rehearsed nor altered.
1583 [implied in: W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. Answ. to Pref. 62 The doctors you quote with~out iudgment fraudulently, falsly, truncately, and otherwise abusiuely. (at truncately adv.)].
2.
a. In scientific and technical use: = truncated adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective] > not fully formed > as if part were cut off
truncated1704
truncate1717
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [adjective] > shortened > (as if) by cutting
cuttedc1386
docked1408
stucked?a1439
trunked1552
cropped1558
lopped1570
short-cut1596
stumped1598
dubbeda1661
truncated1704
truncate1717
well-cropped1805
clipped1870
junky1873
lobbed1883
crop1957
1717 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 408 Like truncate Cones or Cylinders.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxi. 305 The Tulip Tree..is remarkable for the shape of its leaves, having the middle lobe of the three truncate, or cut transversely at the end.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 333 Elytra..Truncate... When they are shorter than the abdomen and transverse at the end.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. i. 1 Successive steps of table land, interspersed with some truncate conical hills [i.e. kopjes].
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 38 A rectrix broad to the very tip, and there cut squarely off, is truncate.
b. In combination with another adjective of form, as truncate-turbinate; = truncato- comb. form.
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1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 354 Cups substipitate, truncate-turbinate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

truncatev.

Brit. /trʌŋˈkeɪt/, /ˈtrʌŋkeɪt/, U.S. /ˈtrəŋˌkeɪt/
Etymology: < Latin truncāt-, participial stem of truncāre , < truncus trunk n.
a. transitive. To shorten or diminish by cutting off a part; to cut short; to maim, mutilate. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)]
wemc900
slaya1000
alithOE
hamblea1050
belimbc1225
dismember1297
lamec1300
maimc1325
shearc1330
unablec1380
emblemishc1384
magglec1425
magc1450
demember1491
disablea1492
manglea1500
menyie?a1513
mayhem1533
mutilatec1570
martyr1592
stump1596
bemaim1605
cripplea1616
martyrize1615
deartuate1623
hamstring1641
becripple1660
limb1674
truncate1727
dislimb1855
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > make short(er) [verb (transitive)] > (as if) by cutting
crop?c1225
dockc1380
cutc1385
trunk?1440
coll1483
scut1530
to cut, trim, etc. short1545
prune1565
bobtail1577
curtail1580
lop1594
decurtate1599
imp1657
truncate1727
abridge1750
bob1822
1486 [implied in: Blasyng of Armys sig. cviv, in Bk. St. Albans A cros truncatid. And hit is calde trunkatid for hit is made of .ij. treys the boys [= boughs] cut a way. (at truncated adj. 1)].
1572 [implied in: J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 95v These trees are truncated, that is to saie, ye boughes cut of from the body, and laide in the forme of a Saltier. The endes whereof may not touch the Angles of the shield. (at truncated adj. 1)].
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Truncate, to cut shorter, to maim.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. ⁋70 The examples are too often injudiciously truncated.
1852 W. R. Williams Relig. Progress (1854) iii. 53 It wrongs man by truncating his nature of conscience and immortality.
1911 Athenæum 16 Sept. 318/2 He..never wrote short stories, only truncated long ones.
b. In scientific and technical use: spec. in Crystallography to ‘cut off’ or replace (an edge or solid angle) by a plane face, esp. so as to make equal angles with the adjacent faces. Chiefly in past participle: see truncated adj. 2.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal symmetry > truncation [verb]
truncate1758
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 97 Pyramids..some of which..are obtuse as if truncated.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 393 If this gulf were..choked up,..so that new explosions..should truncate the cone once more.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 348/1 The faces of one hexagonal prism would truncate the lateral edges of the rhombohedron, while the faces of the other..would truncate its lateral solid angles.
c. Mathematics. To cut short or approximate (a series, etc.) by ignoring all the terms beyond a chosen term. Also absol.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > manipulate set [verb (transitive)]
well-order1618
interpole1677
sum1740
interpolate1796
represent1897
truncate1955
intrapolate1956
partition1959
convolve1969
1955 M. Loève Probability Theory xvi. 233 We truncate X [sc. a random variable] at c > 0..when we replace X by Xc = X or 0 according as |X| < c or |X| ≧ c.
1966 J. H. Cadwell Topics in Recreational Math. xiv. 157 Because of the steadily decreasing terms, when the series is truncated the error incurred is of smaller magnitude than the first term omitted.
1968 P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory ii. 78 It is also sometimes useful to exclude more than one of the possible values of i, and in this case it is more often necessary to truncate at the other end.
1981 Nature 5 Nov. 14/3 The series in equation (1) should extend to m = n = ∞, but in practice the series is truncated at a maximum value..of m and n, usually in the range 8 to 15.

Derivatives

truncating adj. that truncates; spec. said of a plane that replaces an edge or solid angle.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [adjective] > shortened > shortening as if by cutting
truncating1805
1805 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals 43 The direction of the truncating planes..is either rectilinear, curvilinear, or rounded off.
1882 J. Ruskin Bible of Amiens iii. 95 These two truncating and guarding rivers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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