Truncation (disambiguation)

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:

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.

Linguistics

• Clipping (morphology) and other forms of shortening are also known as truncation.

Archaeology

• A cut (archaeology)'s removal of part of the archaeological record is known as a truncation.

Banking

• Truncation denotes the elimination of handling, sorting, transporting, storing, guarding, and mailing of paper checks.

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

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.