truncation

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The act of truncating, or the state of being truncated; also, a truncated part.

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In crystallography, the replacement of an angle (or edge) by a crystalline face.

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The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

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The state of being truncated.

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The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.

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The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)

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The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number

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The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions)

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the act of cutting short

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the property of being truncated or short