truncation
/trʌŋˈkeɪʃən/
noun
- The act or process of shortening something by cutting off the end or a part.
- The truncation of the movie removed the final scene, leaving viewers confused.
- Truncation of the data file caused some numbers to be lost.
- The editor suggested the truncation of several paragraphs to keep the article short.
- In mathematics and computing, the removal of digits or characters beyond a certain point, without rounding.
- The programmer used truncation to limit the length of user input.
- When you use truncation in a spreadsheet, the extra decimal places are simply dropped.
- Truncation of 3.14159 to two decimal places gives 3.14, not 3.15.
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