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n. The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)

n. The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number

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

n. The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

n. The state of being truncated.

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

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

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

n. the act of cutting short

n. the property of being truncated or short

n. 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)

"Some previous applicants will be pleased to know that a quirk known as "truncation" - in which some words, or parts of words, have been inadvertently cut off during submission, for those applicants who didn't preview their work - is likely to become a thing of the past in the form's new incarnation."

shortening    lowness    carving    cutting   

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