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Syncopate vs Truncate - What's the difference?

syncopate | truncate |

As verbs the difference between syncopate and truncate

is that syncopate is to omit a sound or a letter from a word; to use syncope while truncate is to shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.

As an adjective truncate is

truncated.

syncopate

English

Verb

(syncopat)
  • (linguistics) to omit a sound or a letter from a word; to use syncope
  • (music) to stress or accentuate the weak beat of a rhythm; to use syncopation

    • truncate

    English

    (wikipedia truncate)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.
  • (mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop.
  • (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

    • Related terms

    * trunk * truncation

    Synonyms

    * (mathematics) round down

    Adjective

    (-)
  • truncated
  • (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

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