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Truncation
Truncation is like a wildcard. Added to the stem of a word, it will find that stem plus anything that comes after it. The symbol used to truncate a word depends upon the index, database, or Web search engine you are using. |
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| psychol? |
? is used as the truncation symbol. It will
return records with psychology, psychological, psychologist in them. |
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| environ* | * is used as the truncation symbol.
It will
return records with environment, environments, environmental in
them. |
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