Word Finder - truncated

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To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.

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To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.

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To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

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Deprived of one of its parts or of its end.

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Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip.

The form is that of a truncated cone, placed on a cylindrical base, 196 ft.

Dikes intersecting the hornfels but truncated by granite can be seen.

The vomer is broad, abruptly truncated in front, and deeply cleft behind, so as to embrace the rostrum of the sphenoid; the palatals have produced postero-external angles; the maxillo-palatals are slender at their origin, and extend obliquely inwards and forwards over the palatals, ending beneath the vomer in expanded extremities, not united either with one another or with the vomer, nor does the latter unite with the nasal septum, though that is frequently ossified.

Whenever a log file is opened, it is always opened in append mode, so existing data is never truncated.

If val has more fractional digits than can be represented in the DynFixed, fractional digits than can be represented in the DynFixed, fractional digits are truncated and the return value is false.

Several of these arise naturally as crystals, and the truncated icosahedron occurs in real life as a football.

Under certain conditions the voids adopt their equilibrium shape, a truncated octahedron.

The 38-atom truncated octahedron is the most stable fcc cluster in the size range we consider.

Feature 3014 can be interpreted as a heavily truncated posthole or small pit.

Originally there were probably 15 or 20 of these steep-sided, truncated pyramids around the bay.

In most Unix utilities, " long lines are silently truncated " .

The lattice footbridge now just crosses a single line, having been severely truncated on singling of the route in 1967.

A number of heavily truncated features of medieval date were identified.

Fishergate House Fishergate House is known to have been constructed in 1837, and would have badly truncated the remains of the medieval cemetery.

An impressive tower, now somewhat truncated, rose above the center of the building.

This leaves us with a fragmented and heavily truncated perspective on the Neolithic and Bronze Age phases of the site.

There were a few other ancient features that survived, in a severely truncated form.

It has been retained by Hillingdon Council as their emergency control center in a somewhat truncated form.

Dead specimens may not show this feature resulting in a rather truncated appearance.

I went for Case who put on a decent but necessarily truncated set.

Strictly speaking it was a slightly truncated version, but nonetheless conducted with considerable spirit.

But to do so is to become truncated, half human.

This is one of the Platonic solids, and is treated in the article Polyhedron, as is also the derived Archimedean solid named the "truncated tetrahedron"; in addition, the regular tetrahedron has important crystallographic relations, being the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron and consequently a form of the cubic system.

The "regular icosahedron" is one of the Platonic solids; the "great icosahedron" is a Kepler-Poinsot solid; and the "truncated icosahedron" is an Archimedean solid (see Polyhedron).

The "small stellated dodecahedron," the "great dodecahedron" and the "great stellated dodecahedron" are Kepler-Poinsot solids; and the "truncated" and "snub dodecahedra" are Archimedean solids (see Polyhedron).

Previously, it simply failed silently, with truncated output files.

Some of these features are almost certainly truncated versions of Type 1 pits (17).

The kiln was possible involved in the production of both pots and tile and was found to be heavily truncated by later medieval activity.

In most Unix utilities, " long lines are silently truncated ".

The original design was truncated due to a last minute reduction in hoped for funding by the major donor, the Swiss Government.

Label is be truncated to fit width of image.

Where the XMM PSF was used, this was truncated in a square window scaled to include 95% of the total PSF flux.

The URL in the ' location ' element has been truncated for readability.

As for those truncated pyramids, they were a sight I shall not forget.

They commonly take the form of a truncated cone, the broad end springing from the muffle Figure 4a.

Allocation to Period 6 was made on the basis of the surrounding truncated pits of that date.

Or, they may be translated, but only a truncated protein is produced.

If there isn't enough room for a border, though, stopping the border at the cabinets may make the design look truncated and amateurish.

The mensuration of the cube, and its relations to other geometrical solids are treated in the article Polyhedron; in the same article are treated the Archimedean solids, the truncated and snubcube; reference should be made to the article Crystallography for its significance as a crystal form.

Pinnidae.-Shell elongated, truncated and gaping posteriorly.

We suggest that the apparently anomalous observation of truncated lozenges may be due to the presence of the growth rate minimum.

A few field descriptions also showed signs of having been truncated in the middle of words or phrases.

Cheroots differ from ordinary cigars only in shape, being either in the form of a truncated cone, or of uniform thickness throughout, but always having both ends open and sharply cut across.

A remarkable feature of the Central-American ruins is the frequency of truncated pyramids built of hewn stone, with flights of steps up to the temple built on the platform at top. The resemblance of these structures to the old descriptions and pictures of the Mexican teocallis is so striking that this name is habitually given to them.

This mountain mass is of flat-arched, dome-like structure, now well dissected by radiating consequent streams, so that the weaker uppermost strata have been eroded down to the level of the plains where their upturned edges are evenly truncated, and the next following harder strata have been sufficiently eroded to disclose the core of underlying crystalline rocks in about half of the domed area.

As in all Suidae the snout is truncated, and the nostrils are situated in its flat, expanded, disk-like termination.

The limits set to the furnace builder's natural desire to make his furnace as large as possible, and its present shape (an obtuse inverted cone set below an acute upright one, both of them truncated), have been reached in part empirically, and in part by reasoning which is open to question, as indeed are the reasons which will now be offered reservedly for both size and shape.

In High Street may be seen the noble hall and truncated fabric of the Maison Dieu founded by Hubert de Burgh in the 13th century for the reception of pilgrims of all nations.

The flipper is short, broad, and truncated, and the dorsal fin a mere low protuberance.

Baboons are for the most part large terrestrial monkeys with short or medium-sized tails, and long naked dog-like muzzles, in the truncated extremity of which are pierced the nostrils.