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Meaning of "truncate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRUNCATE

From Latin truncāre to lop.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TRUNCATE

truncate  [trʌŋˈkeɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRUNCATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Truncate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb truncate in English.

WHAT DOES TRUNCATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Truncation

In mathematics and computer science, truncation is the term for limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point, by discarding the least significant ones. The term was first used in television by Creighton Sweeney. For example, consider the real numbers 5.6341432543653654 32.438191288 −6.3444444444444 To truncate these numbers to 4 decimal digits, we only consider the 4 digits to the right of the decimal point. The result would be: 5.6341 32.4381 −6.3444 Truncation is equivalent to rounding towards zero. The truncation error can be twice the maximum error in rounding.

Definition of truncate in the English dictionary

The first definition of truncate in the dictionary is to shorten by cutting off a part, end, or top. Other definition of truncate is cut short; truncated. Truncate is also having a blunt end, as though cut off at the tip.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TRUNCATE

PRESENT

Present
I truncate
you truncate
he/she/it truncates
we truncate
you truncate
they truncate
Present continuous
I am truncating
you are truncating
he/she/it is truncating
we are truncating
you are truncating
they are truncating
Present perfect
I have truncated
you have truncated
he/she/it has truncated
we have truncated
you have truncated
they have truncated
Present perfect continuous
I have been truncating
you have been truncating
he/she/it has been truncating
we have been truncating
you have been truncating
they have been truncating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I truncated
you truncated
he/she/it truncated
we truncated
you truncated
they truncated
Past continuous
I was truncating
you were truncating
he/she/it was truncating
we were truncating
you were truncating
they were truncating
Past perfect
I had truncated
you had truncated
he/she/it had truncated
we had truncated
you had truncated
they had truncated
Past perfect continuous
I had been truncating
you had been truncating
he/she/it had been truncating
we had been truncating
you had been truncating
they had been truncating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will truncate
you will truncate
he/she/it will truncate
we will truncate
you will truncate
they will truncate
Future continuous
I will be truncating
you will be truncating
he/she/it will be truncating
we will be truncating
you will be truncating
they will be truncating
Future perfect
I will have truncated
you will have truncated
he/she/it will have truncated
we will have truncated
you will have truncated
they will have truncated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been truncating
you will have been truncating
he/she/it will have been truncating
we will have been truncating
you will have been truncating
they will have been truncating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would truncate
you would truncate
he/she/it would truncate
we would truncate
you would truncate
they would truncate
Conditional continuous
I would be truncating
you would be truncating
he/she/it would be truncating
we would be truncating
you would be truncating
they would be truncating
Conditional perfect
I would have truncate
you would have truncate
he/she/it would have truncate
we would have truncate
you would have truncate
they would have truncate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been truncating
you would have been truncating
he/she/it would have been truncating
we would have been truncating
you would have been truncating
they would have been truncating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you truncate
we let´s truncate
you truncate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to truncate
Past participle
truncated
Present Participle
truncating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRUNCATE


advocate
ˈædvəˌkeɪt
allocate
ˈæləˌkeɪt
authenticate
ɔːˈθɛntɪˌkeɪt
cate
keɪt
colocate
ˌkəʊləʊˈkeɪt
communicate
kəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪt
dedicate
ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt
educate
ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪt
indicate
ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt
Kate
keɪt
locate
ləʊˈkeɪt
mislocate
ˌmɪsləʊˈkeɪt
placate
pləˈkeɪt
prelocate
ˌpriːləʊˈkeɪt
pumicate
ˈpjuːmɪˈkeɪt
relocate
ˌriːləʊˈkeɪt
replicate
ˈrɛplɪˌkeɪt
skate
skeɪt
translocate
ˌtrænzləʊˈkeɪt
vacate
vəˈkeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRUNCATE

truncal
truncated
truncately
truncating
truncation
truncheon
truncheoner
trundle
trundle bed
trundler
trunk
trunk cabin
trunk call
trunk curl
trunk hose
trunk line
trunk road
trunkfish
trunkful
trunking

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRUNCATE

abdicate
aduncate
aguacate
applicate
averruncate
birth certificate
certificate
delicate
detruncate
duplicate
eradicate
fabricate
implicate
intricate
obtruncate
predicate
silicate
syndicate
triplicate
zincate

Synonyms and antonyms of truncate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRUNCATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «truncate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of truncate
abbreviate · clip · crop · curtail · cut · dock · lop · pare · prune · shorten · trim

Translation of «truncate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRUNCATE

Find out the translation of truncate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of truncate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «truncate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

截断
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

truncar
570 millions of speakers

English

truncate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

truncate
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

اقتطاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

усечение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

truncar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অগ্রভাগ ছাঁটিয়া দেত্তয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tronquer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Truncate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kürzen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

切り捨てる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

절단
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Truncate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chặt bỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खणणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kesmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

troncare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obciąć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

усічення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trunchia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περικόψτε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kortknip
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trunkera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avkorte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of truncate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRUNCATE»

The term «truncate» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.410 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRUNCATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «truncate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «truncate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about truncate

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QUOTES WITH «TRUNCATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word truncate.
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Nick Denton
Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRUNCATE»

Discover the use of truncate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to truncate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Truncate: A Novel
An avid fan of the classic novels and films of this time period, Truncate is the culmination of years of gleaning the stirring aspects of the Victorian mystery, and creating a unique tale combining these elements.
Michael Toledano, 2011
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SQL Bible
The syntax for TRUNCATE is simple: TRUNCATE TABLE <table name> This example illustrates the use of the TRUNCATE statement using Oracle: -- TRUNCATE fails because PRODUCT is referenced -- by foreign key FKORDLINEPRODUCT ...
Alex Kriegel, Boris M. Trukhnov, 2008
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Oracle Database 12c Performance Tuning Recipes: A ...
This example uses a TRUNCATE statement to remove all data from a table: SQL > truncate table emp; When truncating a table, by default all space is de-allocated for the table except the space defined by the MINEXTENTS table-storage ...
Sam Alapati, Darl Kuhn, Bill Padfield, 2013
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SQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
The TRUNCATE TABLE statement, a non-ANSI statement, irrevocably removes all rows from a table without logging the individual row deletes. It quickly erases all the records in a table without altering the table structure, taking little or no ...
Kevin Kline, 2004
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A History of Infusoria: Including the Desmidiaceae and ...
Frustules constricted at the middle ; lobes inflated at the base, with broadly linear, sub- truncate ends ; transverse stria? obscure, about 30 in 001". GDC. p. 38, pi. 4. £ 67. Marine. Scotland. Resembles the next species, but is smaller, with more ...
Andrew Pritchard, William Archer, John Thomas Arlidge, 1861
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A History of Infusorial Animalcules, Living and Fossil
Large, widely linear; laterally, with cuneate, truncate ends; dorsally, with wedge shaped, rounded ends. S. Danica—Large, weak; laterally with the ends dilated and truncate; dorsally tapering on each side from the centre towards the apex, ...
Andrew Pritchard, 1852
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An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy
In a combination of the forma M-0, 001, the faces of the form hko make right angles with those of the form 001. In combinations of the form hko with the forms lo0, 110, the faces of loo truncate the edges k, the faces of 11o truncate the edges f.
William Phillips, Henry James Brooke, William Hallows Miller, 1852
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SQL in a Nutshell
MySQL MySQL versions 3.23 and later support a basic format of the TRUNCATE TABLE statement: TRUNCATE TABLE name MySQL achieves the result of a TRUNCATE TABLE command by dropping and recreating the affected table.
Kevin Kline, Daniel Kline, Brand Hunt, 2008
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Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008
The Delete operation took about 14 seconds and the Truncate operation took about 1/7 of a second. That's a big difference! This is because transactional operations are physically written to the transaction log and then rolled forward into the ...
Paul Turley, Dan Wood, 2011
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Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket
... hostname = '127.0.0.1'; TRUNCATE accesslog; TRUNCATE cache; TRUNCATE cache_filter; TRUNCATE cache_menu; TRUNCATE cache_page; TRUNCATE sessions; TRUNCATE watchdog; Depending on which contributed modules you ...
Greg Knaddison, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRUNCATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term truncate is used in the context of the following news items.
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APC Loyalists Group accuse PDP of trying to truncate Buhari's Agenda
Abuja – The leadership crisis which had delayed the composition of the principal officers of the House of Representatives is yet to be settled as the loyalists ... «Nigerian Observer, Jul 15»
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PDP chieftains lose bid to truncate Akpabio's ambition
Abuja - The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday refused to grant an interim order stopping the nomination of former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, ... «News24 Nigeria, Jul 15»
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Rep. Kevin Yoder continues effort to truncate government searches …
In this Oct. 6, 2010 photo, Kevin Yoder, the Republican nominee for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, answers a question during a debate at Johnson County ... «Topeka Capital Journal, Jun 15»
4
Don't Truncate Nigeria's Democracy, Na' Abba Cautions APC
The emergence of Yakubu Dogara as the Speaker of the eighth House of Representatives on Tuesday has been described as the modern revolutionary trend in ... «Eagle Reporters, Jun 15»
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APC plotting to use tribunals to truncate democracy - PDP
APC-LOGO-17 The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday raised the alarm that the All Progressives Congress was plotting to use the Elections Petitions ... «DailyPost Nigeria, Apr 15»
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US Supreme Court rejects Rajat Gupta's appeal to truncate his …
WASHINGTON, DC: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta, leaving him to continue serving ... «The American Bazaar, Apr 15»
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Protesters truncate Bawumia's Volta Region tour
A planned familiarization tour by the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to the Volta region was truncated after ... «Citifmonline, Apr 15»
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Judiciary to Checkmate Plans to Truncate Democracy
His declaration came as he raised the alarm over what he described as a sinister move by some desperate politicians to truncate the ongoing political process ... «Daily Times, Apr 15»
9
CJN: Desperate Politicians Want to Use Courts to Truncate Democracy
He, however, assured members of the public that the judiciary under his watch would not succumb to the manipulation of politicians to truncate the nation's ... «THISDAY Live, Mar 15»
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Oyo APC, party's chieftain in Kwara warn PDP not to truncate
ALL Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State and one of its chieftains, Mr. Koye Shogbola, have cautioned the Peoples' Democratic Congress (PDP) to desist ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Mar 15»

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