Search Result:truncation
KK Pronunciation
〔 trʌŋˋkeʃәn 〕
Pronunciation
〔 trʌŋˊkeiʃn 〕
Overview of noun truncation
The noun truncation has 3 senses
- shortness, truncation -- (the property of being truncated or short)
- 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))
- truncation -- (the act of cutting short; "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs")