1. The act of cutting short
   "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs"
    
2. The property of being truncated or short
   "The truncation of the text message made it difficult to understand";
   - shortness
    
3. The replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
   "The jeweller's truncation of the diamond enhanced its brilliance"

Derived forms: truncations

Type of: carving, cutting, lowness, shortening

Encyclopedia: Truncation