truncation

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  1. The act of truncating, or the state of being truncated; also, a truncated part. Decreeing judgment of death or truncation of members. Prynne, Huntley's Breviate (1637), p. 48.
  2. In crystallography, the replacement of an angle (or edge) by a crystalline face. In truncation proper, the replacing face makes equal angles with the adjacent faces; otherwise it is said to be oblique.

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  • The media truncation was just one way the party was Twitter-ized.
  • I show how small (particle number) universe relational particle model examples display eigenspectrum truncation, gaps, energy interlocking and counterbalanced total angular momentum. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • · Resolved artist name truncation issue during music playback —  The Gadgeteer
  • In addition to that, relying on notify-osd's "truncation" capability —  Planet GNOME
  • Researchers call the phenomenon developmental truncation, and have debated what it means in evolutionary terms. —  FOXNews.com
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  1. from Late Latin truncatio (n-), from Latin truncare, past participle truncatus, cut off: see truncate.
 

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