truncation

  1. Noun.  The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses).
  2. Noun.  (mathematics) The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
  3. Noun.  (geometry) The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions).

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