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, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,533 in 2020. It is part of the Houma, Louisiana, Houm ...
, a town in the US
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Cutoff, Georgia, 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 are the site that became Vale, Oregon, United States. The first portion of the road was originally known as the Meek Cutoff after Stephen Mee ...
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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
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Lassen Cutoff
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Meek Cutoff
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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 rejo ...
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Tucson Cutoff
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Woodbury Cutoff
Clothing and fashion
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Cut-off
A cut-off, cut, kutte or battle vest (when sleeveless) and a battle jacket or patch jacket (regardless of sleeves), is a jacket adorned with patches related to the wearer's subculture or general interests. Patch jackets are generally made using ...
or kutte, a usually sleeveless decorated jacket
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Crop top
A crop top (also half shirt, midriff top, belly shirt or cutoff shirt) is a top that reveals and exposes the waist, navel, or abdomen.
History Women
The origins of the clothing are unknown, but midriff tops go back to at least the Bronze Age, d ...
, or cutoff, a shirt that exposes the midriff
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Cut-off shorts, 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)
In electronics, cut-off is a state of negligible conduction that is a property of several types of electronic components when a control parameter (that usually is a well-defined voltage or electric current, but could also be an incident light i ...
, a state of negligible conduction.
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Cutoff (metalworking), 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 Met ...
, 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 calculati ...
, 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, o ...
, a one-sided reference range in health-related fields.
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Cutoff (steam engine)
In a steam engine, cutoff is the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed. On a steam locomotive, the cutoff is controlled by the reversing gear.
The point at which the inlet valve closes and stops the entry of steam into the ...
, the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed.
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Cutoff frequency
In physics and electrical engineering, a cutoff frequency, corner frequency, or break frequency is a boundary in a system's frequency response at which energy flowing through the system begins to be reduced ( attenuated or reflected) rather than ...
, 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 val ...
, 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
In electronics, the cut-off voltage is the voltage at which a battery is considered fully discharged, beyond which further discharge could cause harm. Some electronic devices, such as cell phones, will automatically shut down when the cut-off vol ...
, the voltage at which a battery is considered fully discharged.
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Fuse (electrical)
In electronics and electrical engineering, a fuse is an electrical safety device that operates to provide overcurrent protection of an electrical circuit. Its essential component is a metal wire or strip that melts when too much current flows th ...
(or cutoff), a type of overcurrent protection device.
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Meander cutoff
A meander cutoff is a natural form of a cutting or cut in a river occurs when a pronounced meander (hook) in a river is breached by a flow that connects the two closest parts of the hook to form a new channel, a full loop. The steeper drop in gra ...
, a course change in a meandering river.
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Cutoff functions, a construction used to eliminate singularities of a given function.
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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 is 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 are in ...
, 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 ...
, 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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