Term - Truncation

	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$	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, environments, environmental. * is used as the truncation symbol in EBSCOhost and ProQuest databases.
	acqui!	will return records on acquistions, acquisitioning, acquires and acquiring. ! is used as the truncation symbol in Lexis-Nexis Academic.
	wom?n	will return records on woman and women. In most databases, the ? symbol is used to handle variant spellings within words.