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Truncation
In database searching, the addition of a special symbol (*, #, ?, etc. ) to the root of a word to match any record in a database that begins with the letters to the left of the symbol. For example in the online catalog, typing forest? as an expert keyword search would find records containing the words forest, forestry, forests, forested, etc.
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