To shorten, to cut short. A malformation (birth defect) may truncate a limb. A mutation may create a stop codon that truncates a protein. From the Latin truncare maening to cut short or mutilate from truncus, trunk.

Truncating a custom object lets you remove all of the object’s records, while keeping the object and its metadata.

late 15c., from Latin truncatus "cut off," past participle of truncare "to maim, mutilate, cut off," from truncus "mutilated, cut off, deprived of branches or limbs" (see [..]

A method of formatting data by removing characters at the end of the data that do not conform to the format desired.

a leaf blade having a relatively square end

(v.) To cut off the end of something. Usually, the term is used to describe a type of rounding of floating-point numbers. For example, if there are too few spaces for a long floating-point number, a p [..]

with an abruptly transverse edge as if cut off, e.g. of a lamina apex (Fig. 6 F), or base (Fig. 7 D).

[Apex of leaf blade] -- Ending very abruptly as if cut straight across (of lamina tips as well as bases).

According to 12 USCS § 5002 (18) [Title 12. Banks and Banking; Chapter 50. Check Truncation] the term truncate means “to remove an original paper check from the check collection or return process and [..]

To take a float or double and want the corresponding integer (possibly as a float, double, int or long) there are four basic algorithms you might use: round, ceil, floor or truncate. With truncate the [..]

(v) make shorter as if by cutting off(v) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one(adj) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off(v) replace a corner by a plan [..]

squared off

     to end abruptly, squared off. Tymbal:

To drop digits in a number, decreasing the precision of the number.

To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it. (mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or t [..]