- shortened by or as if by having a part cut off; cut short: an unnecessarily truncated essay.
- (of a geometric figure or solid) having the apex, vertex, or end cut off by a plane: a truncated cone or pyramid.
- (of a crystal) having corners, angles, or edges cut off or replaced by a single plane.
- truncate (def. 4).
- (of a line of verse) lacking at the beginning or end one or more unstressed syllables needed to fill out the metrical pattern.
- (of a cone, pyramid, prism, etc) having an apex or end removed by a plane intersection that is usually nonparallel to the base
- (of a crystal) having edges or corners cut off
- shortened by or as if by cutting off; truncate
