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Cutoff or cut off or cut-off may refer to:

Places

  • Cut Off, Louisiana, a town in the US
  • Cutoff, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the US

Clothing and fashion

  • Cut-off or kutte, a usually sleeveless decorated jacket
  • Crop top, or cutoff, a shirt that exposes the midriff
  • Cut-off shorts, long pants that have been cut at the knee level (usually without a hem) to create shorts

Science and technology

  • Cut-off (electronics), a state of negligible conduction
  • Cutoff (metalworking), a piercing operation used to cut a workpiece from the stock
  • Cutoff (meteorology), a high- or low-pressure system stuck in place due to a lack of steering currents
  • Cutoff (physics), a threshold value for a quantity
  • Cutoff (reference value), a one-sided reference range in health-related fields
  • Cutoff (steam engine), the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed
  • Cutoff frequency, in telecommunications and digital signal processing
  • Cutoff grade, in mining, the level of mineral in an ore below which it is not economically feasible to mine it
  • Cutoff voltage, the voltage at which a battery is considered fully discharged
  • Fuse (electrical) (or cutoff), a type of overcurrent protection device
  • Meander cutoff, a course change in a meandering river
  • Thermal cutoff, an electrical safety device that interrupts electric current when heated to a specific temperature

Other uses

  • Cut-off (poker), the seat to the right of the dealer or button, second best position
  • Railroad cutoff, a new railroad line built to replace or supplement an existing route

See also

  • Cutting off, a hazardous driving technique
  • All pages with titles containing cutoff
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