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- noun computing, dated, rare A form of
assignment tofixed -length string variables in which a shorter value ispadded to the necessary length while a longer one istruncated .
Etymologies
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After the legendary highwayman Procrustes, who stretched or cut his victims to make them fit a bed.
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