/trung kay"sheuhn/ , n.
1. the act or process of truncating.
2. the quality or state of being truncated.
3. Pros. the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse.
4. Banking. a system of electronic check recording under which canceled checks are not returned to customers by the bank.
[ 1570-80; truncation- (s. of truncatio ), equiv. to L truncatus (see TRUNCATE) + -ion- -ION ]