1. (

• shortness ,
• truncation

) the property of being truncated or short ;

2. (

• truncation ,

) 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. (

• truncation

) the act of cutting short; "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs" ;