What Does Truncate Mean?
Truncation in IT refers to “cutting” something, or removing parts of it to make it shorter. In general, truncation takes a certain object such as a number or text string and reduces it in some way, which makes it less resources to store.
Techopedia Explains Truncate
Some examples of truncation in IT include the truncation of floating point numbers. A truncation operation in code may take a number with several digits to the left of the decimal point, and truncate that number into an integer. This is similar to the mathematical process of “rounding off,” except that in some forms of truncation, the number may be automatically rounded down by cutting off the extra decimal digits, even if that floating point number was closer to a higher integer.
