Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A form of assignment to fixed-length string variables in which a shorter value is padded to the necessary length while a longer one is truncated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, rare, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
After the legendary highwayman Procrustes, who stretched or cut his victims to make them fit a bed.
