noun
1. the property of being truncated or short
• Syn: ↑shortness
• Hypernyms: ↑lowness
2. 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)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑truncate
3. the act of cutting short
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it is an obvious truncation of the verse
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they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs
• Derivationally related forms: ↑truncate
• Hypernyms: ↑shortening
Useful english dictionary. 2012.