Meaning & use
truncation
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The act of shortening something by cutting off a part of it.
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The truncation of the report left out several important details.
In programming, truncation of a decimal number simply removes the digits after a certain point.
A note on using this word
Common in mathematics and computer science, where truncating a number is different from rounding it.
Words with a similar meaning
shorteningabbreviation
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