Answered By: Kealin McCabe
Last Updated: May 03, 2023     Views: 271

Truncation refers to the placement of an asterisk at the meaningful root of a word to get the database to retrieve results containing that word and all of its subsequent endings. Most databases will use  an * , but some may ask you to use a ? as the truncation symbol. Here are a few examples:

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