truncation
noun/tɹʌŋˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion.
1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
2
Mathematics, Sciences The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
3
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.
- Derived terms
- antitruncation, bitruncation, cantitruncation, omnitruncation, runcicantitruncation, runcitruncation, tritruncation, truncational