truncation

Plural: truncations

Noun

• the property of being truncated or short
• 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)
• the act of cutting short
  • "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"
  • "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs"
• The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
• The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
• An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.

Synonyms

shortness

Related Words

truncate, truncated