cutoff
American Heritage Dictionary:
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cut·off
also cut-off (kŭt'ôf', -ŏf') 
n.
n.
- A designated limit or point of termination.
- A shortcut or bypass.
- A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow.
- The act or an instance of cutting off: a cutoff of funds; an electricity cutoff.
- Baseball. The interception by an infielder of a throw to home plate from the outfield.
- A device that cuts off a flow of fluid.
- Music. A conductor's signal indicating a stop or break in playing or singing.
- cutoffs Pants, such as blue jeans, made into shorts by cutting off part of the legs.
- Designating a limit or point of termination: a cutoff date for applications.
- Baseball. Serving to intercept or relay a throw to home plate from the outfield: the cutoff man.
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Fulfillment: point at which the processing of additional transactions is stopped prior to a file update. See also business date cutoff.
Printing: printed-sheet length equal to the circumference of the plate cylinder used in a web press.
Barron's Insurance Dictionary:
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Cut-Off
clause in a reinsurance policy that excludes the reinsurer’s liability for losses occurring after a stipulated date.
| Cut Rate, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customary and Reasonable Charge | |
| Cut-Through Endorsement (Assumption of Risk), Daily Form (REPORT), Damage to Own Automobile |
Roget's Thesaurus:
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cut-off
noun
- The act of stopping: cessation, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, halt, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease. See continue/stop/pause.
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n.the deliberate shutting off of a reaction engine.
See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.
1. The prescribed elevation at which the top of a drive pile is cut.
2. A structure, such as a wall, intended to eliminate or reduce percolation through porous strata.
Electronics Dictionary:
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cutoff
Condition when an active device is biased such that output current is near zero or beyond zero.
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(DOD, NATO) The deliberate shutting off of a reaction engine.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:
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molecular weight cut-off
or cut-off
a jargon term for the nominal maximal value of the relative molecular mass of a macrosolute that can pass through an ultrafiltration membrane of a particular grade.
a jargon term for the nominal maximal value of the relative molecular mass of a macrosolute that can pass through an ultrafiltration membrane of a particular grade.
| molecular weight, molecular tinkering, molecular switch | |
| molecular weight marker, molecular-sieve chromatography, molecular-sieve electrophoresis |
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categories related to 'cutoff'
- Inland Waterways and Lakes - cutoff: new channel in river, formed by water cutting across bend in its course
- Space Exploration and Rocketry - cutoff: termination of propellant flow in rocket; stoppage of combustion
- Baseball - cutoff: to intercept a throw from the outfield
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Cutoff
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Cutoff or cut off or cut-off may refer to:
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Science and technology
- Cutoff (physics), a threshold value for a quantity
- Cutoff (reference value), a one-sided reference range
- Cutoff (steam engine), the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed
- Cutoff (metalworking), a piercing operation used to cut a workpiece from the stock
- Cutoff grade, in mining, the level of mineral in an ore below which it is not economically feasible to mine it
- Cutoff frequency, in telecommunications and digital signal processing
- Cut-off (electronics), when in a MOSFET device the gate to source control voltage is less than a threshold value denoted by
or 
: then the channel is said to be cut-off, imposing the flow of a very low drain-to-source current - Meander cutoff, a course change in a meadering river
- Fuse (electrical), a type of overcurrent protection device
Clothing and fashion
- Kutte, a usually sleeveless decorated jacket
- Crop top, a shirt that exposes the midriff
- Cut-off shorts, long pants that have been cut at the knee level (usually without a hem) to create shorts
Roads, Railroads and Trails
As a route, a cutoff (or cut-off) refers to a new route that is shorter than the old or former route.
- Elliott Cutoff, a covered wagon road that branched off the Oregon Trail at the Malheur River
- Goodale's Cutoff, formed a spur of the Oregon Trail in Idaho, United States
- Lackawanna Cut-Off, a former double-track railroad in northwestern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania, built by the Lackawanna Railroad
- Lucin Cutoff, a railroad line that crosses the Great Salt Lake in Utah
- Meek Cutoff, a covered wagon road that branched off the Oregon Trail in north-eastern Oregon
- Patterson Creek Cutoff, an abandoned railroad line built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in northern West Virginia and Western Maryland
- Salt Lake Cutoff, one of the many shortcuts that branched from the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails in the United States
Other uses
- Cut Off, Louisiana, a town in the United States
- Meek's Cutoff, a 2010 outlaw western film directed by Kelly Reichardt
- Position (poker), cutoff is the seat to the right of the dealer or button, second best position
See also
- Cutting off, a hazardous driving technique
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Cut-off
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - afskåret, afstumpet
n. - afskæring, afslutning, genvej
Nederlands (Dutch)
(boven)grens, afsluiter, kortere weg
Français (French)
adj. - raccourci
n. - raccourci, obturateur (de cylindre), (Électron) déconnexion, mise hors de contact, mise hors circuit, limite, jeans coupés
Deutsch (German)
adj. - Grenz-
n. - Abschaltung, Trennung, Abschneiden
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διακόπτης, (ηλεκτρικός) αποζεύκτης, (πληθ.) παντελόνι με κομμένα τα μπατζάκια
adj. - τερματικός, τελικός
Italiano (Italian)
limite estremo, scorciatoia, interruzione
Português (Portuguese)
n. - prazo (m)
v. - cortar
adj. - de expansão
Русский (Russian)
предел, размыкатель
Español (Spanish)
adj. - cortado, cesado
n. - corte, cese, atajo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - avskärning, avslutning, cylinderfyllning (tekn.), omställare (mil.), genväg, kanal, avklipp, periodavgränsning
adj. - avskuren, avklippt
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
切掉的, 切断的, 删去的, 切掉, 切断, 删去
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 切掉的, 切斷的, 刪去的
n. - 切掉, 切斷, 刪去
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 삭제한, 절단한
n. - 절단, 쉼, 지름길
日本語 (Japanese)
adj., -
n. - カットオフ, 切断
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) از لأيقاف تدفق الوقود, حد, حدود (صفه) مستقطع
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - שימש כקצה, היה הקצה של
n. - וסת-זרם, מפסק, קיצוץ, קצר חשמלי (ארה"ב)
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