Truncate vs Extend - What's the difference?
truncate | extend |
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).
truncated
(botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.
To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
As verbs the difference between truncate and extend
is that truncate is to shorten something as if by cutting off part of it while extend is to increase in extent.As an adjective truncate
is truncated.truncate
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(wikipedia truncate)Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* (mathematics) round downAdjective
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* * ----extend
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Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors