cutaway

English

Etymology

cut +‎ away

Adjective

cutaway (not comparable)

1. (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.

Translations

3D graphics

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Noun

cutaway (plural cutaways)

cutaway

1. (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 […]

2. (television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
3. A coat with a tapered frontline.
4. A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior
5. An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.

Translations

a cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker

• Italian: ritaglio (it) m
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coat

• Finnish: saketti (fi)
• Hungarian: zsakett (hu)
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diagram or model

• Finnish: leikkauskuva
• Italian: spaccato (it) m
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See also

• exploded view