0 the act of making something shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end of it:
Nick grieves at the loss of his friend, and for the abrupt truncation of their shared history.
He took a financial hit with all of his expenses, taxes, and the truncation of his career.
We believe that death is not a truncation of life but a continuation.
I provide examples in (7) ; the truncation pattern has the effect of reducing suffixed polysyllables to two syllables.
Minor truncations and discontinuities are visible at edges.
An empirical route was followed through the use of stochastic simulations and comparisons with traditional truncation selection.
In addition, truncation of the transportan sequence resulted in a more rapid uptake.
Like the large-angle scattering case, no coherent pulses are present in both the f1 or f2 truncations.
