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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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| environ* | will
return records with the words environment, environments, environmental, etc. * is used as the truncation symbol in Academic Search Premier and ALICE. |
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