truncated adjective. ['trʌŋkeɪtɪd, -'keɪt-] L15.
[from Latin truncatus (see prec.) + -ED¹, or from TRUNCATE verb + -ED¹.]
1. Heraldry. Of a cross or tree: having the limbs or boughs cut off, so as not to extend to the boundaries of the shield; couped. L15.

2. techn.
a. (Of a figure or shape) having one end cut off by a transverse line or plane; (of a cone or pyramid) having the vertex cut off by a plane section, esp. parallel to the base. Also, (of an edge or vertex) cut off or replaced by a plane face, esp. one equally inclined to the adjacent faces; (of a crystal form or solid figure) having its edges or angles so cut off. E18.
truncated OCTAHEDRON.
b. Architecture. (Of a roof) terminating in a horizontal surface instead of a ridge or point; (of a column etc.) appearing as if the top has been cut off; shortened; terminating abruptly. E18.
c. Botany & Zoology. = TRUNCATE adjective 2. M18.
d. Statistics. Of a frequency distribution or sample: obtained by disregarding values of the variate greater or less than some chosen value. Of a variate: treated in this way. M20.
e. Of soil: having lost the upper horizon(s) as a result of rapid erosion. M20.

3. gen. Shortened (as) by cutting off; (apparently) cut short; mutilated. M18.
■ H. Brodkey The..truncated kind of thought available to my thirteen-year-old intelligence. New York Review of Books Truncated arms and legs, the tragedies of nature augmented by the..war.

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