Synonyms:
truncate, truncated
Meaning: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"
Synonyms:
abbreviated, shortened, truncated
Meaning: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
Usage examples
Everywhere around us we saw truncated cones, formerly so many fiery mouths.
It was a truncated cone, since there was no ceiling; a hot blue disk of sky cast light on the floor below.
A set of wooden forms, such as spheres, cubes, pyramids, cones, cylinders, and similar, but truncated, forms, can be obtained at any school supply store.
Looking up, he made out the truncated cone of a conning tower with its antennae-like periscope tubes stencilled black upon the soft purple of the star-strewn sky.