cutoff
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Noun[edit]
cutoff (plural cutoffs)
- The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
- A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- A device that stops the flow of a current.
- A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- A cessation in a flow or activity.
- 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook (page 144)
- If the treatment is approved, a script is written. If the script is approved, it goes into production. But this is usually a long and painful process. A cutoff can take place (and often does) at any step along the way.
- 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook (page 144)
- (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- (fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- 1919, The Washington Newspaper
- Light-face type, cutoffs, borders and rules are the universal plan. No black body matter and almost no black headlines appear.
- 1919, The Washington Newspaper
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Translations[edit]
The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited
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A road, path of channel that provides a shorter or quicker path
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Adjective[edit]
cutoff (not comparable)
- Constituting a limit or ending.
- (psychology, medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.