truncate

1. 1.

   terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

   “a truncate leaf”

   “truncated volcanic mountains”

   “a truncated pyramid”

   Synonymstruncated

   Similarshort

Other forms of truncate

past tense

truncated·

present participle

truncating·

third person

truncates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about truncate

What does truncate mean?

truncate means "replace a corner by a plane". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in truncate?

truncate has 2 syllables: trun-cate. The stress falls on "trun". In IPA it is /ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for truncate?

Close synonyms include cut short, truncated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is truncate a common word?

truncate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with truncate?

34 words rhyme with truncate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.