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Truncate
Truncating is a process that drops characters of text or numbers (without rounding) when the text or numbers are limited to a specific location to store or print them. For example, the number 5.768 is truncated to 5.76 when stored or printed in a location that holds only four characters.


Source: Laboratory V. 5.2 Anatomic Pathology User Manual


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Truncate
Truncating is a process that drops characters of text or numbers (without rounding) when the text or numbers are limited to a specific location to store or print them. For example, the number 5.768 is truncated to 5.76 when stored or printed in a location that holds only four characters.


Source: Laboratory V. 5.2 Technical Manual


This is a Glossary term from the VistA Documentation Library