0 present participle of truncate
1 to make something shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end of it:
Truncating mutations (frameshift and nonsense) are shown with light-green lines; missense mutations are indicated with dark-green lines.
The mutations we have seen include five truncating mutations, four of which are homozygous.
The layering and amphibolite-facies foliation of the enclosing gneisses commonly wraps eclogite pods, truncating eclogite-facies structures.
We may now re-examine the expansion (4.10), truncating by power and identifying the order.
He reported that truncating the brain above the thalamus produced emotional behaviors.
Selection may also act as a truncating mechanism, imposing a ceiling on allele size.
Truncating the support of the distribution amounts to impose such a restriction provided is not too large.
The resulting indeterminacy is removed by truncating the series in some manner.
