truncation

About 0.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

shortness shortening obtruncation curtailing detruncation cropping deglutination abridgment abridgement diminutivization

Often followed by

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