Nick Denton

Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.

British Journalist

Joe Bonamassa

The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo either becomes either very truncated, very different, or non-existent, because even if you play a clean solo, it's different with the Kryptonite... with the acoustic.

American Musician

Noam Chomsky

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

American Activist

Neal Katyal

No responsible scholar who thinks a sitting president cannot be indicted also thinks an attorney general can try to truncate a process of oversight - by Congress, for example - by 'pre-clearing' the president in advance.

American Lawyer

Alan Huffman

Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

American Author

Jimmy Smits

The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated - we only do 12 shows - the writers are more at ease in terms of mapping out the trajectory of the story and the characters.

American Actor

Norman Lindsay

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.

Australian Artist

Henry Rollins

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

Eric McCormack

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

Canadian Actor

David Novak

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

American Theologian

Truncate means cutting off only a part of something, not its entirety.

Partial Removal

The term is mostly used in editing, writing, and speaking where content needs shortening.

Specific Contexts

In computing, truncating is a precise action often used with numbers and text data.

Technical Precision

Some programming functions named 'truncate' specifically cut off decimal points from numbers.

Programming Function

Truncate as an adjective indicates something has been shortened, also implying urgency or limitation.

Bridging Contexts

A 'truncate' version differs in scope from the original, prepare for less detail or breadth.

Expectation Adjustment

In data, 'truncate' can mean filling gaps with neutral elements like zeros or spaces.

Data Processing

When truncating numbers, you might lose precision, which is important in specific analyses.

Loss of Precision

 the relative distribution of shares and the network really matters about 10 years ago mister truncated Rivera had ownership and control in a small company which had ownership and control in the

Who controls the world?...

 said that the best was to use a truncated octahedron which, as you all know -- is this thing here!