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Definition of Truncation

1. Noun. The property of being truncated or short.

2. 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).

3. Noun. The act of cutting short. "They were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs"

Definition of Truncation

1. n. The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

Definition of Truncation

1. Noun. The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses) ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number ¹

3. Noun. (geometry) The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Truncation

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Medical Definition of Truncation

1. 1. The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off. 2. The state of being truncated. 3. The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces. Origin: L. Truncatio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truncation

trumping trumpings trumplike trumps truncal truncate truncate ascertainment truncated truncated cone truncated icosahedra

truncated icosahedron truncated icosahedrons truncated pyramid truncates truncating truncation (current term) truncation error truncations trunch truncheoned

truncheoneer truncheoneers truncheoning truncheons trunches trunci intestinales trunci lumbales trunci plexus brachialis truncus

Literary usage of Truncation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"If we admit this, then all nine of the 211 intersections of an octahedral truncation are represented among these slip bands, and there is no straight part ..."

2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1897)
"... the apices of the elytra being narrowly and obliquely truncate, the truncation sinuate, the angles, especially the exterior, very acute and prominent. ..."

3. An Introduction to Mineralogy: Adapted to the Use of Schools, and Private by John Lee Comstock (1832)
"By truncation is meant, that certain edges, or angles of the crystal are cut off, ... 15, the difference caused by slight truncation will be observed, ..."

4. A Manual of Elementary Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"... 3 jj| ant by decomposi- fc in the centre — ic remains — Con- a—Columnar and nets of active vol- pun tains — Craters id—-truncation of origin of the Cal- ..."

5. An Introduction to Mineralogy: Adapted to the Use of Schools and Private by John Lee Comstock (1859)
"By truncation is meant, that certain edges, or angles of (lie crystal are cut off, ... 15, the difference caused by slight truncation will be observed, ..."

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