truncate

  1. Verb.  To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.
  2. Verb.  (mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop.
  3. Verb.  (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
  4. Adjective.  truncated.
  5. Adjective.  (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

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