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verb
- 1. shorten the duration or extent of: "he was a sensational player whose career was truncated by injuries"
- 2. replace (an edge or an angle) by a plane, typically so as to make equal angles with the adjacent faces.
adjective
- 1. (of a leaf, feather, or other part) ending abruptly as if cut off across the base or tip.
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6 days ago · The truncation symbol can be used in a keyword search to retrieve alternate word endings. Use truncation to avoid having to think of and type out all possible variations of a word. e.g. surg* will retrieve surgery, surgeries, surgeon, or surgical.
- Jo-Anne Petropoulos
- 2020
6 days ago · Truncation allows you to search for variant forms of a word as a single search concept, rather than identifying and entering variant words of the keyword as individual concepts.
3 days ago · This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology.
5 days ago · Arithmetic operations form the basis of many branches of mathematics, such as algebra, calculus, and statistics. They play a similar role in the sciences, like physics and economics. Arithmetic is present in many aspects of daily life, for example, to calculate change while shopping or to manage personal finances.
2 days ago · In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor series are equal near this point.
4 days ago · science, any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws.
3 days ago · They are three-dimensional geometric solids which are defined and classified by their faces, vertices, and edges. A regular polyhedron has the following properties: faces are made up of congruent regular polygons; the same number of faces meet at each vertex. There are nine regular polyhedra all together: five convex polyhedra or Platonic solids.
