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truncation

noun
/tɹʌŋˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from truncāre
  2. derived from truncātiō

Definitions

  1. The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words…

    The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).

  2. The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.

  3. An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a…

    An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.

The neighborhood

Derived

bitruncation, cantitruncation, omnitruncation, runcicantitruncation, runcitruncation, tritruncation

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for truncation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA