cutoff
adjEtymology Deverbal from cut off.
1
Constituting a limit or ending.
2
Human sciences, Medicine, Psychology, Sciences Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.
cutoff
nounUK /kəˈtɒf/ · US /kəˈtɔf/
Etymology Deverbal from cut off.
10 senses
- 1The point at which something terminates or to which it…
- 2A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value…
- 3A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or…
- 4A device that stops the flow of a current.
- 5A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to…
- 6A cessation in a flow or activity.
- 7The player who acts directly before the player on the…
- 8Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- 9A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the…
- 10A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
1
The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
2
Medicine, Sciences 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.
3
A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
4
A device that stops the flow of a current.
5
A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
6
A cessation in a flow or activity.
- 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:
7
Card games, Poker The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
8
Fashion, Lifestyle In plural Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- […] I spotted through the window a young woman casually crossing Astor Place wearing a pair of cutoffs, some sandals and — it is fully legal to do this — naked above the waist.2021 July 22, Guy Trebay, “Suddenly It’s Bare Season”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
9
Fashion, Lifestyle A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the sleeves off of a t-shirt.
10
Journalism, Media A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- 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:
- Derived terms
- avulsive cutoff, cutoff low, cutoff time, final order cutoff, Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff