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truncations

/trʌŋˈkeɪʃənz/ noun · British & US
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What does truncations mean?

noun

The act of cutting short or reducing something, especially a word or phrase, to a shorter form. Truncations are often used in computing and data storage to reduce the size of data.

Example

"The database used truncations to reduce the storage space required for the large dataset."

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