<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>shortened by or as if by having a part cut off; cut short: an unnecessarily truncated essay</li><li>(of a geometric figure or solid) having the apex, vertex, or end cut off by a plane: a truncated cone or pyramid</li><li>Crystallography: (of a crystal) having corners, angles, or edges cut off or replaced by a single plane</li><li>Biology: truncate (def 4)</li><li>Prosody: (of a line of verse) lacking at the beginning or end one or more unstressed syllables needed to fill out the metrical pattern</li></ul>