cutaway

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cut +‎ away

cutaway (not comparable)

(computer graphics) Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.
- 2004 January, CADalyst
  While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.

3D graphics

cutaway (plural cutaways)

cutaway

(television) A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.
- 2004, October 18, The New Yorker
  Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]
(television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
A coat with a tapered frontline.
A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior
An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.

a cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker

coat

diagram or model