Truncate vs Impinge - What's the difference?
truncate | impinge |
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 make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).
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(figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).
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To have an effect upon; to limit.
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As verbs the difference between truncate and impinge
is that truncate is to shorten something as if by cutting off part of it while impinge is to push (transitive: apply a force to (an object) so that it moves away), thrust, shove.As an adjective truncate
is truncated.truncate
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(wikipedia truncate)Verb
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* (mathematics) round downAdjective
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(imping)- The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […].
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}