FromLate Latintruncātiō, fromLatintruncāre, past participletruncātus(“to cut off”). Bysurface analysis,truncate +-ion.
truncation (countable anduncountable,pluraltruncations)
- (linguistics) The act oftruncating orshortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words orportmanteaus).
- (mathematics) The removal of the leastsignificantdigits from adecimalnumber.
- (geometry) Anoperation in anydimension that cuts aregularpolytope at itsvertices, creating a newfacet in place of each vertex.
- Hypernym:rectification
- Hyponyms:bitruncation,tritruncation,omnitruncation,cantitruncation,runcitruncation,runcicantitruncation
- Coordinate terms:cantellation,runcination,sterication
removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number
replacement of a solid angle by a plane
- “truncation”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “truncation”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
