truncated

Meanings

Verb

• replace a corner by a plane
• approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
• make shorter as if by cutting off
  • "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
• simple past and past participle of truncate

Adjective Satellite

• cut short in duration
  • "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
• terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
  • "truncated volcanic mountains"
  • "a truncated pyramid"

Adj

• Deprived of one of its parts or of its end (e.g., a line of poetry with one syllable fewer in one of its feet).
• Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip.

Synonyms

abbreviated, cut short, shortened, truncate