truncation

From Late Latin truncatio, from Latin truncare, past participle truncatus (“to cut off”). See truncate.

truncation (countable and uncountable, plural truncations)

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

• truncate

• truncation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• truncation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.