truncation
truncation Lexical Profile
truncation Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The act or process of shortening something by cutting off the top or the end, or the state of being so shortened.
"The sudden truncation of the concert tour disappointed thousands of fans who had already purchased tickets."
In mathematics and computing, the dropping of digits of a number or characters of a string beyond a certain point without rounding.
"Integer division in many programming languages performs truncation toward zero rather than rounding to the nearest whole number."
In geometry and crystallography, the replacement of an edge or vertex of a polyhedron or crystal by a plane face.
"The cuboctahedron can be formed through the uniform truncation of the vertices of a standard cube."
• Rhymes for truncation
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin truncatio, a noun of action from Latin truncare ('to maim or cut off'), derived from truncus ('maimed, mutilated', and as a noun, 'the trunk of a tree').