truncate

truncate

(trung kAt') n.

1. to shorten an object by removing part of it.

2. to remove characters from the end of a character string. The SAS supervisor does this automatically when it assigns a character expression to a shorter character variable.

3. to convert a real number to an integer by rounding toward 0, removing the fractional part of the number.

4. to reduce the precision of a floating-point number by removing its least significant bytes or changing them to zero.