Truncation in a sentence as a noun

And often times silent truncation is not a "best-effort", but a huge hole.

Data truncation and silent failures should not be warnings!

We're all aware that casting to an integer does truncation, not rounding.

I presume he's referring to the silent truncation stunt Mongo has been accused of by others before.

One of his complaints is about truncation and therefore overlapping points.

*/ Edit #3: The hash truncation occurs in the reference implementation as well.

"aborting is correct: unexpected truncation is always a logic bug"How does a function knows what a programmer expects...

Yet, if your Gawker password had been "passwords delight entropy enthusiasts", it would have been cracked immediately, due to the 8-character truncation.

But, it's not really a good use of anyone's time to be dealing with truncation in a time when it no longer has any reason to be the default except historical accident.

Except for causing annoyances, the truncation of data may also have security implications.

Truncation definitions

noun

the property of being truncated or short

See also: shortness

noun

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)

noun

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