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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪt/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /tɹaŋˈkæɪt/

動詞

truncate (三人称単数 現在形 truncates, 現在分詞 truncating, 過去形および過去分詞形 truncated)

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

   The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.

   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:

     All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845-46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11½-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.

2. (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (または leading) digits.
3. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (または to make a similar change to a crystal).

同意語

• (数学): round down

関連する語

• trunk
• truncation

参考

• (幾何学): dual polyhedron

形容詞

truncate (not comparable)

1. Truncated.
2. (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

Further reading

• “truncate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “truncate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

truncāte

1. vocative masculine singular of truncātus