cutoff

See also: cut-off and cut off

English[edit]

cut +‎ off

cutoff (plural cutoffs)

The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
1. (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.
(poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
(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.

cutoff (comparative more cutoff, superlative most cutoff)

Constituting a limit or ending.
(psychology) and (medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.

The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited

A road, path of channel that provides a shorter or quicker path