Definitions for truncation

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truncation trun·ca·tion

Spelling: [truhng-key-shuh n]

IPA: /trʌŋˈkeɪ ʃən/

Truncation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 497 anagrams from letters in truncation (acinnorttu).

Definitions for truncation

noun

1. the act or process of truncating.
2. the quality or state of being truncated.
3. Prosody. the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse.
4. Banking. a system of electronic check recording under which canceled checks are not returned to customers by the bank.

Origin of truncation

1570-80; Late Latin truncātiōn- (stem of truncātiō), equivalent to Latin truncātus (see truncate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for truncation

The parts reproduced assume their previous relations, and effect a return to the balance impaired by their truncation.

But it is obvious that it is reproduction, or reversion back to the state which existed previous to the truncation of the edges.

The stock of bifid was at first extremely varied in the amount of this truncation.

The outcrop of beds at the surface is commonly the truncation of these curves.

The truncation of six of the edges of each has, in some manner or other, been effected.