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truncations

truncations is the plural of truncation.

Meaning of truncation

Noun

truncation (countable and uncountable, plural truncations)

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

Questions about truncations

What is truncations the plural of?
Truncations is the plural of truncation.

Words near truncations in the dictionary

  1. truncateness
  2. truncates
  3. truncating
  4. truncation
  5. truncational
  6. truncations
  7. truncator
  8. truncators
  9. truncature
  10. truncatures
  11. trunch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: truncations (page history and authors); truncation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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