truncation
/trəŋ'keɪʃən/
noun
10 letters3 syllables12 points in Scrabble®16 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS3
NOUN
1
The property of being truncated or short.
2
The act of cutting short.
“it is an obvious truncation of the verse”
“they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs”
3
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).
WORD FORMS
Related formtruncate
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®12 points
Words With Friends®16 points
Double word24 points
Triple word36 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinuncationtray
Starts & ends withT … N
Syllablestrun · ca · tion
SYNONYMS & RELATED2
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