Cutoff or cut off or cut-off may refer to:
Places
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Cut Off, Louisiana
Cut Off (historically named La Coupe) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,533 in 2020. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolita ...
, a town in the US
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Cutoff, Georgia Cutoff is an unincorporated community in Macon County, in the U.S. state of Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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, an unincorporated community in the US
Alternative routes (US:Westward Expansion Trails)
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Elliott Cutoff
The Elliott Cutoff was a covered wagon road that branched off the Oregon Trail at the Malheur River where present-day Vale, Oregon, United States is today. The first portion of the road was originally known as the Meek Cutoff after Stephen Meek ...
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Hastings Cutoff
The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford Hastings in ''The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California''. The ill-fated Donner Party infamously took the route in 1846.
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Lander Cutoff
The Emigrant Trail in Wyoming, which is the path followed by Western pioneers using the Oregon Trail, California Trail and Mormon Trail (collectively referred to as the Emigrant Trail), spans through the U.S. state of Wyoming. The trail entered f ...
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Lassen Cutoff
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Meek Cutoff
Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century. The road was named for frontiersman Stephen Meek, who wa ...
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Salt Lake Cutoff
The Salt Lake Cutoff is one of the many shortcuts (or cutoffs) that branched from the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails in the United States. It led northwest out of Salt Lake City, Utah and north of the Great Salt Lake for about before rejoin ...
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Tucson Cutoff
The Tucson Cutoff was a significant change in the route of the Southern Emigrant Trail. It became generally known after a party of Forty-Niners led by Colonel John Coffee Hays followed a route suggested to him by a Mexican Army officer as a shorte ...
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Woodbury Cutoff
Clothing and fashion
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Cut-off or kutte, a usually sleeveless decorated jacket
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Crop top, or cutoff, a shirt that exposes the midriff
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Cut-off shorts
Shorts are a garment worn over the human pelvis, pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg. They are called "shorts" b ...
, long pants that have been cut at the knee level (usually without a hem) to create shorts
Science and technology
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Cut-off (electronics), a state of negligible conduction
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Cutoff (metalworking)
Blanking and piercing are shearing (metalworking), shearing processes in which a Punch (metalworking), punch and die (manufacturing), die are used to produce parts from coil or sheet stock. Blanking produces the outside features of the componen ...
, a piercing operation used to cut a workpiece from the stock
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Cutoff (meteorology)
Blocks in meteorology are large-scale patterns in the atmospheric pressure field that are nearly stationary, effectively "blocking" or redirecting migratory cyclones. They are also known as blocking highs or blocking anticyclones.Glossary of Mete ...
, a high- or low-pressure system stuck in place due to a lack of steering currents
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Cutoff (physics)
In theoretical physics, cutoff (AE: cutoff, BE: cut-off) is an arbitrary maximal or minimal value of energy, momentum, or length, used in order that objects with larger or smaller values than these physical quantities are ignored in some calcul ...
, a threshold value for a quantity
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Cutoff (reference value)
In medicine and health-related fields, a reference range or reference interval is the range or the interval of values that is deemed normal for a physiological measurement in healthy persons (for example, the amount of creatinine in the blood, or ...
, a one-sided reference range in health-related fields
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Cutoff (steam engine), the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed
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Cutoff frequency, in telecommunications and digital signal processing
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Cutoff grade Cutoff grade is the minimum grade required in order for a mineral or metal to be economically mined (or processed). Material found to be above this grade is considered to be ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more ...
, in mining, the level of mineral in an ore below which it is not economically feasible to mine it
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Cutoff voltage, the voltage at which a battery is considered fully discharged
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Fuse (electrical) (or cutoff), a type of overcurrent protection device
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Meander cutoff, a course change in a meandering river
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Thermal cutoff
A thermal cutoff is an electrical safety device (either a thermal fuse or thermal switch) that interrupts electric current when heated to a specific temperature. These devices may be for one-time use (a thermal fuse), or may be reset manually or ...
, an electrical safety device that interrupts electric current when heated to a specific temperature
Other uses
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Cut-off (poker) Position in poker refers to the order in which players are seated around the table and the related poker strategy implications. Players who act first are in "early position"; players who act later are in "late position"; players who act in between ...
, the seat to the right of the dealer or button, second best position
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Railroad cutoff
A railroad (or railway) cutoff (or cut-off) is a new railroad line built to replace or supplement an existing route, typically one where the old line is deficient for some reason.
Reasons and types
The term "cutoff" refers to the fact that the n ...
, a new railroad line built to replace or supplement an existing route
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Cutoff Mountain, a summit in Montana
See also
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Cutting off, a hazardous driving technique
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