truncation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

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From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion.

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bitruncation cantitruncation omnitruncation runcicantitruncation runcitruncation tritruncation

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