truncate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
replace a corner by a plane
Types & categories
- interchange hypernym
Related & opposite
- truncation derivation
- geometry domain topic
Sense 2 adjective
terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
a truncate leaf
Related & opposite
- short similar to
Sense 3 verb
approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
truncate a series
Types & categories
- estimate hypernym
Related & opposite
- mathematics domain topic
Sense 4 verb
make shorter as if by cutting off
truncate a word
Types & categories
- shorten hypernym
Related & opposite
- truncation derivation
- chop off entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | truncation |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | geometry |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | interchange |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | short |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | mathematics |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | estimate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | truncation |
| 4 | entails | Related & opposite | chop off |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | shorten |