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Truncation |
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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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| psychol* | will
return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist. * is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in EBSCO and ProQuest databases. |
| environ! | will
return records on environment, environments, environmental. ! is used as the truncation symbol in LexisNexis databases. |
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