what does truncate mean?

Answer 1

Essential to make shorter. It is a common computer process to truncate a string. If I take the string:
"The big brown dog" and truncate it to 7 characters I get:
"The big"
This can be useful when the sting from an input should be limited to a specific length.

In mathematics, truncation is the term used for reducing the number of digits right of the decimal point, by discarding the least significant ones.

For example, consider the real numbers

5.6341432543653654
32.438191288
6.3444444444444
To truncate these numbers to 4 decimal digits, we only consider the 4 digits to the right of the decimal point.

The result would be:

5.6341
32.4381
6.3444

Answer 2

truncate, like people mentioned above, means to shorten something. For instance, if you have a paragraph describing a book, but you only want to show the first 100 characters of the paragraph on the first page, and someone can click to read the full paragraph, then you would truncate the paragraph on the first page.

Answer 3

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what does truncate mean?

Answer 4

truncate means to chop off. In the case of a database it means to remove all data from a table. i.e. "truncate tbl_salary".

Answer 5

Truncate is a term mainly used in DB operations.

It means that delete all rows from a table. This is one operation compared to one delete operation on the table for each row.

So, it is a very good operation if you want to empty out a DB table.

Answer 6

I got the whole message and it still showed truncated

Answer 7

"To cut short". For instance, if you type "Orville Redenbacher" into a database field and it only stores "Orville Rede", it has been truncated.

Answer 8

To cut off or shorten to make something fit the space allotted to it.

Answer 9

to make shorter