- an act or instance of cutting off.
- something that cuts off.
- a road, passage, etc., that leaves another, usually providing a shortcut: Let's take the cutoff to Baltimore.
- a new and shorter channel formed in a river by the water cutting across a bend in its course.
- a point, time, or stage serving as the limit beyond which something is no longer effective, applicable, or possible.
- shorts made by cutting the legs off a pair of trousers, especially jeans, above the knees and often leaving the cut edges ragged.
- a selected point at which records are considered complete for the purpose of settling accounts, taking inventory, etc.
- an infielder's interception of a ball thrown from the outfield in order to relay it to home plate or keep a base runner from advancing.
- arrest of the steam moving the pistons of an engine, usually occurring before the completion of a stroke.
- (in a vacuum tube) the minimum grid potential preventing an anode current.
- the termination of propulsion, either by shutting off the propellant flow or by stopping the combustion of the propellant.
- being or constituting the limit or ending: a cutoff date for making changes.
- to remove by cutting
- to intercept or interrupt something, esp a telephone conversation
- to discontinue the supply of
- to bring to an end
- to deprive of rights; disinherit
- to sever or separate
- to occupy a position so as to prevent or obstruct (a retreat or escape)
- the act of cutting off; limit or termination
- (as modifier)
- a route or way that is shorter than the usual one; short cut
- a device to terminate the flow of a fluid in a pipe or duct
- the remnant of metal, plastic, etc, left after parts have been machined or trimmed
- electronics
- the value of voltage, frequency, etc, below or above which an electronic device cannot function efficiently
- (as modifier)
- a channel cutting across the neck of a meander, which leaves an oxbow lake
- another name for oxbow (def. 2)
