truncated

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: trun=cat=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

truncated, a. 

•  Cut off; cut short; maimed.  [1913 Webster]
•  Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.  [1913 Webster]
•  Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.  [1913 Webster]

Truncated cone or Truncated pyramid (Geom.), a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.

THESAURUS

truncated

Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, brief, brusque, butchered, castrated, clipped, close, club-footed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, cut short, defaced, deformed, disfigured, docked, dwarfed, elliptic, epigrammatic, flatfooted, garbled, gnomic, grotesque, hashed, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, knock-kneed, laconic, lopped, malformed, mangled, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pithy, pointed, pruned, pug-nosed, rachitic, reserved, rickety, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, succinct, summary, swaybacked, synopsized, taciturn, talipedic, terse, tight, to the point

ROGET THESAURUS

truncated

Incompleteness

N incompleteness, deficiency, short measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret, shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c (complete), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding, incompletely, by halves, caetera desunt, caret.