truncate

Adjective

• terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
  • a truncate leaf
    
  • truncated volcanic mountains
    
  • a truncated pyramid
    

Verb

• make shorter as if by cutting off
  • truncate a word
    
  • Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains
    

• approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
  • truncate a series
    

• replace a corner by a plane

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  truncated , cut short