Associations to the word «Truncation»

TRUNCATION, noun. The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)

TRUNCATION, noun. (mathematics) The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number

TRUNCATION, noun. (geometry) The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions)

TRUNCATION, noun. The property of being truncated or short.

TRUNCATION, 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).

TRUNCATION, noun. The act of cutting short; "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs".