Sentence examples for truncation from inspiring English sources
The word 'truncation' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe the process of shortening a word, sentence, or other speech or writing by removing its beginning or end. For example, you can say, "The truncation of 'escalator' to 'esca' makes it difficult to understand the word's meaning without additional context."
noun
The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)
But in nearly a week of interviews he was unable to confirm any reports of killings by the security forces.The relay of the Olympic torch through Lhasa was much curtailed for security reasons though officials claimed the truncation was somehow related to the devastating earthquake in Sichuan in May.
And the problem arises from the truncation of wage changes at the bottom end:That chart, which you can find here, uses data from 2011 (not that long ago!).
A word may be played just once, which also excludes any truncation of the words: sailors eliminates sailor and sail, but still allows sailing, sails and mainsail.
But Egypt's rulers proved unexpectedly stubborn; not merely because they loathe Islamists, but because they feared, perhaps rightly, that Israel had intended all along to foist Gaza and its troubles onto them, perpetuating the truncation of the putative Palestinian state.
So secession could occur in spring and an election near the year's end.Mr Netanyahu is not reconciled to such a truncation of his term.
More than anything, this may have tipped Mr Fukuda into resigning.The man who negotiated with New Komeito over the truncation of the Diet session and, unwittingly or not, thus helped undermine Mr Fukuda, was Taro Aso, the LDP's secretary-general.
One type results from the fact that the acceleration is not really constant over the time step, and the other from the rounding off or truncation of the numbers at every step of the calculation.
This truncation often produced unexpected changes of meaning.
Although only a finite number of words may be formed in any given grid, with that number reduced each turn by the words played (along with truncations), an artificial-intelligence routine can look at how a word played in one round affects possible paths to victory in subsequent rounds, based on the moves available to the opponent.
Addressing findings around the BRCA1 and BRCA2, commonly associated with breast cancer, Dr Ling said the team found a "significant number of germline truncations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes present in tumor types including stomach and prostate cancers".
As John Herrman, who is now the tech editor at BuzzFeed, wrote on the comedy Web site Splitsider, "The kinds of tweets that used to take weeks to show up — the perfect truncations, the ominous declarations — were now coming fast and hard".
