Truncated
a.- Cut off; cut short; maimed.
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(Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces;
as, a .truncated edge - (Zoöl.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.

