truncate

(verb)

To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.

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Examples of truncate in the following topics:

  • Misleading Graphs

    • A truncated graph has a y-axis that does not start at zero.
    • Graphs may also be truncated to save space.
    • Commercial software such as MS Excel will tend to truncate graphs by default if the values are all within a narrow range.
    • Both of these graphs display identical data; however, in the truncated bar graph on the left, the data appear to show significant differences, whereas in the regular bar graph on the right, these differences are hardly visible.
    • Criticize the practices of excessive usage, biased labeling, improper scaling, truncating, and the addition of a third dimension that often result in misleading graphs.

  • Unsticking Stuck Ribosomes

    • Subsequently, the ribosome moves from the 3' end of the truncated messenger RNA onto the tmRNA where it translates the codons of the tmRNA until the tmRNA stop codon is encountered.
    • Depending on the organism, the resulting truncated protein is degraded and the truncated mRNA .

  • Interpreting Distributions Constructed by Others

    • A truncated graph has a y-axis that does not start at 0.
    • Note that both of these graphs display identical data; however, in the truncated bar graph on the left, the data appear to show significant differences, whereas in the regular bar graph on the right, these differences are hardly visible.

  • Electron Configurations of Atoms

    • The periodic table shown here is severely truncated.
    • The truncated periodic table shown above provides the orbital electronic structure for the first eighteen elements (hydrogen through argon).

  • Round-off Error

    • The number $\pi$ (pi) has infinitely many digits, but can be truncated to a rounded representation of as 3.14159265359.

  • F-groups

  • Components

  • Inactivating and Marking Target Genes with Transposons

    • Specifically, the transposon contains signals to truncate expression of an interrupted gene at the site of the insertion and then restart expression of a second truncated gene.

  • Chance Models

    • Truncating and censoring of data can also be estimated using stochastic models.

  • Applications of Taylor Series

    • The (truncated) series can be used to compute function values numerically.