truncate

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  1. transitive verb To shorten by or as if by cutting off. See Synonyms at shorten.
  2. transitive verb To shorten (a number) by dropping one or more digits after the decimal point.
  3. transitive verb To replace (the edge of a crystal) with a plane face.

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  • (CVE-2008-3525, Important) * a flaw was found in the way files were written using truncate () or ftruncate (). —  LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories
  • I think a better option may be to to truncate the title such that the tab count always shows up.
  • So I thought a good way to delineate it would be to just truncate the name, and it has worked in some senses, and it has not worked in some senses. —  The Seattle Times
  • When I create a user that has a user id greater than 20 characters, I have to truncate the SAMAccount name to be 20 characters because of the SAMAccount limitation or create an unique SAMAccount name 20 characters or less in order for the account creation to work. —  ASP.NET Forums
  • Young still strongly believes in the new ship, even as the Navy seeks to "truncate" the number it buys from seven ships to three and return to building Arleigh Burke DDG 51-class Aegis destroyers, which the Navy leadership claims are needed to combat new threats like ballistic missiles that the DDG 1000s weren't designed to defeat. —  News From DefenseNews.com
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin truncāre, truncāt-, from truncus, trunk; see terə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin truncatus, past participle of truncare, cut off, reduce to a trunk: see trunk, v.
  2. from Latin truncatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ˈtrəŋkeɪt/
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