cropping
The act by which something is cut short or truncated.
Example
“The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings.”
Other meanings
The growing of crops.
An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.
Related words
- autocropping
- monocropping
- multicropping
- polycropping
- sharecropping
- upcropping
- double cropping
- strip cropping
- trap cropping
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cropping” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.