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truncation
 
Noun truncation has 3 senses
  1. shortness, truncation - the property of being truncated or short
    --1 is a kind of lowness
  2. truncation - 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)
    --2 is a kind of     carving, cutting
    Derived form: verb truncate1
  3. truncation - the act of cutting short; "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs"
    --3 is a kind of     shortening
    Derived form: verb truncate3
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