[计] 截断; 截除

1. the property of being truncated or short

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2. 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)

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3. the act of cutting short

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it is an obvious truncation of the verse
they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs