truncation -
the act of cutting short; "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs"
shortening act of decreasing in length; "the dress needs shortening"
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)
carving,
cutting removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
truncation -
the property of being truncated or short
Truncation is the term for limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point, by discarding the least significant ones. For example, consider the real numbers 5.6341432543653654 32.438191288 −6.3444444444444 To truncate these numbers to 4 decimal digits, we only consider the 4 digits to the right of the decimal point. The result would be: 5.6341 32.4381 −6.3444 Note that in some cases, truncating would yield the same result as rounding, but truncation does not round up or round down the digits; it merely cuts off at the specified digit.
