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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. It can also be used at the beginning or middle of a word. The symbol used to truncate a word depends upon the index, database, or Web search engine you are using. For example, the UM catalog Mirlyn uses *, and the ProQuest databases uses ? |
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| paint? or paint* |
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return records on paint, painting, painters, paints. |
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| wom?n or wom*n | will return records with the terms woman and women | |
| ?ology or *ology | will return records on anthropology, archaeology, psychology, etc. | |
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