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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. Some databases will use a ? and others may use an * or
an ! .
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| psychol? |
will return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist when
a
? is used as the truncation symbol. |
| environ* |
will return records on environment, environments, environmental when
an
* is used as the truncation symbol. |
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