Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of truncating, or the state of being truncated; also, a truncated part.
  • noun In crystallography, the replacement of an angle (or edge) by a crystalline face.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.
  • noun The state of being truncated.
  • noun (Min.) The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)
  • noun mathematics The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number
  • noun geometry The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of cutting short
  • noun the property of being truncated or short
  • noun the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Late Latin truncatio, from Latin truncare, past participle truncatus ("to cut off"); see truncate.

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Examples

  • Some previous applicants will be pleased to know that a quirk known as "truncation" - in which some words, or parts of words, have been inadvertently cut off during submission, for those applicants who didn't preview their work - is likely to become a thing of the past in the form's new incarnation.

    NYT > Home Page By JACQUES STEINBERG 2012

  • On the neck truncation is a monogram of Gilroy Robert’s initials GR.

    Kennedy Half Dollar, Silver, 1964 : Coin Guide 2009

  • This is referred to as the truncation problem because there is no standard procedure for determining when energy costs become small enough to neglect.

    Net energy analysis 2008

  • Do not sign up for voluntary check truncation, which is non return of your checks.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2004 2004

  • The issues with inconsistent titling, title truncation, dialogs that make a parent window's menus inaccessible, and the inherent lack of discoverability haven't been addressed.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

  • This post lists the 19 schools that the Department of Education wants to phase out, along with the six that will have their middle school grades removed that's called truncation. the Panel for Educational Policy votes on the changes, hearings are going on almost every night at the schools that are to be phased out or truncated.

    NYT > Home Page By ELBERT CHU 2012

  • [48597] Low Avoid hostname truncation and incorrect eliding.

    Softpedia News - Global 2010

  • For the scope of this blog post, the concepts that need to be conveyed are that SQL Server allocates log space in logical sections called Virtual Log Files (VLFs) within each physical log file, and depending on the logging level of that database, there are several actions that trigger something called log truncation, which is the action of freeing any virtual logs before the VLF that contains the minimum recovery log sequence number.

    Site Home Pedro Azevedo Lopes 2010

  • · Avoid hostname truncation and incorrect eliding.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • · Resolved artist name truncation issue during music playback

    The Gadgeteer 2009

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