Truncation (disambiguation)
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The word truncation means "the act of shortening in all senses".
As a term of art, though, it has various specific meanings in different fields:
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[edit] Mathematics
- Truncation is the term used for reducing the number of digits right of the decimal point by discarding the least significant ones
- Truncation (statistics) refers to measurements which have been cut off at some value
- Truncation (geometry) is the removal of one or more parts, as for example in truncated cube.
[edit] Linguistics
- Clipping (morphology) and other forms of shortening are also known as truncation.
[edit] Archaeology
- A cut (archaeology)'s removal of part of the archaeological record is known as a truncation.
[edit] Banking
- Truncation denotes the elimination of handling, sorting, transporting, storing, guarding, and mailing of paper checks.
[edit] Computer Science
- Data truncation occurs when a file or other data is stored in a location too small to accommodate its entire length.
- Truncate (SQL) is a command in the SQL data manipulation language related to the mathematical meanings above
[edit] Biology
- In botany, "truncate" is a leaf shape
- In molecular biology, a truncated protein is a protein shortened by a mutation which specifically induces premature termination of mRNA translation.
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