Associations to the word «Truncation»

Wiktionary

TRUNCATION, noun. The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)
TRUNCATION, noun. (mathematics) The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number
TRUNCATION, noun. (geometry) The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions)

Dictionary definition

TRUNCATION, noun. The property of being truncated or short.
TRUNCATION, 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).
TRUNCATION, noun. The act of cutting short; "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats