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Truncation vs Runcation - What's the difference?

truncation | runcation |

As nouns the difference between truncation and runcation

is that truncation is the act of truncating or shortening (in all senses while runcation is the act of weeding by hand.

truncation

English

(wikipedia truncation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of truncating or shortening (in all senses)
  • (mathematics) The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number
  • (geometry) The replacement of a solid angle by a plane (or a similar operation in other dimensions)

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    * truncate

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    runcation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The act of weeding by hand.
  • * 1664 , , Sylva: A Discourse of Forest Trees & the Propagation of Timber , Volume One,
    • Then, having given it a second stirring, immediately before you sow; cast and disperse it into rills, or small narrow trenches, of four or five inches deep, and in even lines, at two foot interval, for the more commodious runcation , hawing, and dressing the trees: ...
  • * 1855 July, The Farmer's magazine ,
    • The object of this harrowing or raking was simply in order that the weeds might be more easily eradicated ; but it is a question whether the good it did in facilitating the "runcation " (or hand-weeding) was greater than the injury it inflicted by bruising and tearing the corn.
  • * 1865 , William Smith (editor), A concise dictionary of the Bible ,
    • Even swine have been known so to feed ; and, further, by their constant runcation among whatever lies on the ground, suggest impurity, even if they were not generally foul feeders.