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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.

psychol* in some databases will return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist.
* is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in ALICE and Academic Search Premier.
manage$ in some databases will return records on managers, management, manager.
$ is used as the truncation symbol in Business and Industry and other OhioLINK databases.
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