TRUNCATED

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3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
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Cut off; cut short; maimed.

2.
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Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.

3.
a.

Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off. Truncated cone or pyramid (Geom.), a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.

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