truncation

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
2. (countable, uncountable) The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
3. (countable, uncountable) An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.

Konzepte

Abbruch

Abrundung

Abschneiden

Endretusche

Synonyme

shortness

truncate

curtailment

citation

clipping

cut

cutback

cut off

excerpt

excision

intercept

mutilation

pruning

rounding

shortening

abridgement

amputation

abridgment

break-in

Übersetzungen

troncature

αποκοπή

περικοπή

κολόβωση

truncamiento

truncament

troncation

afkorting

Truncatura de um Sólido

Truncatura de um sólido

التّقصير

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion.