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Truncation is an English word with synonyms like shortness or carving. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Truncation in a sentence

Truncation meaning

  1. The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
  2. The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
  3. An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.

Synonyms of Truncation

shortness lowness carving cutting shortening

Related words

Other words often associated with Truncation or its synonyms:

height tallness cold lowliness sadness diminution unkind degree lack sharp position duration

Using Truncation

  • The main meaning on this page is: The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus). | The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number. | An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.
  • Useful related words include: shortness, lowness, carving, cutting.
  • In the example corpus, truncation often appears in combinations such as: truncation of, and truncation, truncation and.

Context around Truncation

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

edge 1× error 1× encroachment 1× solid 1× whichever 1× natural 1× bit 1×

Often after:

error 2× errors 1× involves 1× mode 1× rounding 1×

Sentence patterns with Truncation

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and edge truncation 1× between and truncation 1× degeneration a truncation or even 1× discretization error truncation errors are 1× government and truncation of democracy 1× here is truncation of both 1× of encroachment truncation and abuse 1× off or truncation error 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to shehu 1× ignoring scaling expansion 1× in some examples 1× starting with a 1× the final compander 1× the last construction 1×

Common sentence endings:

a mathematical procedure 1× advantage somewhere else 1× and edge truncation 1× away of corners 1× between and truncation 1× bleed to death 1×

Words around Truncation

Just before it in the word index:

truncating 15 truncateda 12 truncated 124 truncate 30 trunat 2 trumpy 10

Just after it in the word index:

trunchbull 4 truncheon 8 truncheons 11 trunculus 2 trundle 16 trundled 12

Similar in corpus frequency:

aav 21 abdicating 21 abductor 21 abet 21 abh 21 abhorred 21

Corpus analysis for Truncation

  • In this selection, "truncation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, edge, error, encroachment, error, errors and involves stand out and add context to how "truncation" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and edge truncation and between and truncation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "truncation" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with truncation

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Starting with a Platonic solid, truncation involves cutting away of corners. (11 words)

The last construction we use here is truncation of both corners and edges. (13 words)

According to Shehu, the talk of an interim government and truncation of democracy is way off the mark. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

However, since the early 20th century this distinction has been lost in common usage outside of Oxford, and some historians suggest the name Isis is nothing more than a truncation of Tamesis, the Latin name for the Thames. (38 words)

Truncation and discretization error Truncation errors are committed when an iterative method is terminated or a mathematical procedure is approximated, and the approximate solution differs from the exact solution. (29 words)

According to him, most of the roads in those societies have no footpaths, and where the footpaths exist, there are issues of “encroachment, truncation and abuse/misuse by motorists. (29 words)

Question examples

What does it mean when we say that the truncation error is created when we approximate a mathematical procedure? (19 words)

Example sentences (16)

Ignoring scaling, expansion can also be viewed as truncation of corners and edges but with a particular ratio between corner and edge truncation.

Truncation and discretization error Truncation errors are committed when an iterative method is terminated or a mathematical procedure is approximated, and the approximate solution differs from the exact solution.

According to Shehu, the talk of an interim government and truncation of democracy is way off the mark.

According to him, most of the roads in those societies have no footpaths, and where the footpaths exist, there are issues of “encroachment, truncation and abuse/misuse by motorists.

However, since the early 20th century this distinction has been lost in common usage outside of Oxford, and some historians suggest the name Isis is nothing more than a truncation of Tamesis, the Latin name for the Thames.

In some examples the meaning is further obscured by adding a second iteration of rhyme and truncation to the original rhymed phrase.

Starting with a Platonic solid, truncation involves cutting away of corners.

The C++03 version will sometimes be faster, as it is allowed to pick whichever truncation mode is native to the processor.

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The final compander achieved a very mild gain error recovery due to the natural truncation rounding error caused by twelve bit arithmetic.

The last construction we use here is truncation of both corners and edges.

There is rarely a degeneration, a truncation, or even a vice or any physical or moral loss without an advantage somewhere else.

There will always be some form of corrupting noise, even if it is present as round-off or truncation error.

The second was truncation, in which the convicted person was cut in two at the waist with a fodder knife and then left to bleed to death.

The theory behind them is relatively easy to understand, and they are easily implemented and fast, especially on computer hardware which can provide modulo arithmetic by storage-bit truncation.

Thus 123.456 is an approximation of any real number between and (rounding) or any real number between and (truncation).

What does it mean when we say that the truncation error is created when we approximate a mathematical procedure?

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Common combinations with truncation

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "truncation" in a sentence?
An example: "Ignoring scaling, expansion can also be viewed as truncation of corners and edges but with a particular ratio between corner and edge truncation." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "truncation" from authentic English texts.
What does "truncation" mean?
Truncation means: The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
What are synonyms of "truncation"?
Common synonyms of "truncation" include: shortness, lowness, carving, cutting, shortening.
How many example sentences with "truncation" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "truncation", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.