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Definition: Truncation |
TruncationNoun1. The property of being truncated or short. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "truncation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Truncation \Trun*ca"tion\, noun. [Latin expression truncatio.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | The cutting off of the least-significant digits of a number, thus sacrificing precision to achieve greater speed or simplification. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Character masking performed at either end of a word or phrase. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | System of limiting the physical circulation of securities in certificate form to save paper and reduce operating costs. Includes use of computers, microfiche, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The arrangement under which a financial institution does not return canceled checks or drafts to the account holder. Instead, the checks or drafts are microfilmed and the microfilm becomes the record if the customer requests a copy of the check or draft. (references) | |
Statistics | A truncated distribution is one formed from another distribution by cutting off and ignoring the part lying to the right or left of a fixed variate value. A truncated sample is likewise obtained by ignoring all values greater than or less than a fixed value. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For example, given 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. The truncation error can be twice the maximum error in rounding.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Truncation."
Synonym: TruncationSynonym: shortness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Truncation |
| Specialty definitions using "truncation": check truncation ♦ Genes, myc ♦ protein truncation test. (references) |
| "Truncation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Truncation" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "truncation": protein truncation test ♦ truncation to the next smaller integer. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
act check truncation | 26 |
check truncation | 14 |
truncation | 13 |
data right string truncation | 3 |
act truncation | 2 |
card credit truncation | 2 |
ach check truncation | 2 |
electronic check truncation | 2 |
2003 act check truncation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "truncation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 截. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zkomolení (distortion, mutilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trunkering, begrænsning af cirkulationen af fysiske værdipapirer, afskæring (cut-off, dressing, edging off, offcut, shearing, trimming), afkortning (bucking, cross cutting, cutting up, slashing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | beperking van fysieke omloop van waarden, afknotting (cut off), afkappen (cut off, elide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | typistys, katkaiseminen (trimming), arvopapereiden fyysisen liikkumisen rajoittaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | troncature, troncation, limitation de la circulation physique des valeurs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Abbruch (abort, abortion, break off, cutting, damage, demolition, derogation, discontinuation, dropout, harm, rupture, severance, termination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περικοπή (abridgement, citation, curtailment, cutback, excerpt, excision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'מימ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | truncation, troncamento (censoring, trimming), limite di circolazione fisica dei titoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 끊음. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uncationtray truncagem (snapping). (various references) округление (roundoff). (various references) truncamiento, limitación de la circulación física de los valores. (various references) avkortning (condensation, curtailment). (various references) tepesini kesme, ucunu kesme, kesme (abscission, clip, curtailment, cut, cutback, cutting, discontinuation, interception, nip, scission, section, shearing, shutoff, stoppage, suppression). (various references) sự chặt cụt, sự cắt cụt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "truncation": truncations. (additional references) | |
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"Truncation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trinacrian, trunction. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "truncation" (pronounced 'Trun*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: continua, countian, notturni, nutation, taciturn, traction, turncoat, urticant. | |
-3 letters: actinon, auction, carotin, caution, citator, contain, courant, curtain, intrant, nocturn, rainout, ricotta, ruction, taction, tantric, unction, unicorn. | |
-4 letters: action, anoint, anuric, aortic, aroint, atonic, attorn, cannot, canton, cantor, carton, cation, citron, contra, cornua, cortin, cottar, craton, incant, intact, intort, intron, inturn, nation, natron, nonart. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: continuator, truncations. | |
+2 letters: continuators, counterstain, encrustation, incrustation, transduction, unconstraint. | |
+3 letters: connaturality, contrapuntist, counteracting, counteraction, counterstains, encrustations, incrustations, instructional, macronutrient, repunctuation, transductions, unconstraints. | |
+4 letters: anticorruption, centrifugation, congratulating, congratulation, constructional, contrapuntists, cotransduction, counteractions, counterstained, counterstating, intracutaneous, macronutrients, nontherapeutic, repunctuations, subcontracting, transductional, uncontradicted. | |
+5 letters: anticorruptions, centrifugations, congratulations, connaturalities, cotransductions, counterinstance, counterirritant, counterreaction, counterstaining, nonarchitecture, nonmatriculated, ultraconvenient. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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