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Truncation   /trˈəŋkˌeɪʃən/   Listen
Truncation

noun
1.
The property of being truncated or short.  Synonym: shortness.
2.
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).
3.
The act of cutting short.  "They were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs"



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"Truncation" Quotes from Famous Books



... mouth being situated in the middle of the under side of the thorax, in Limulus,—that most ancient of crustaceans, and therefore one likely to exhibit a structure now embryonic in other orders. I will only further remark, that I suspect that the truncation of the anterior end of the carapace, has been effected by the segments having been driven inwards, and consequently, that the larger antennae within the lateral horns, though standing more in front than the little approximate ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin


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