Truncated

a.	1.	Cut off; cut short; maimed.
	2.	(Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.
	3.	(Zool.) Lacking the apex; - said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off. Truncated cone (Geom.) a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.

Adj.	1.	truncated - cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" Synonyms: abbreviated, shortened
	2.	truncated - terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" Synonyms: truncate

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

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