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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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| nurse? |
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return records on nurses, nurse, and nursed. ? is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in Academic Index. The question mark in Academic Index stands for only one character |
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| environ* |
will
return records on environment, environments, environmental in
Academic Index. The * in Academic Index stands for any number of
characters |
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