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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 search engine you are using.

psychol? will return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist.

? is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in the Library Catalog.

environ* will return records on environment, environmental, or even environs.

* is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in Academic Search Complete.

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