Cutoff

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

Science and technology

• Cutoff (physics), a threshold value for a quantity
• Cutoff (reference value), a one-sided reference range
• Cutoff (steam engine), the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed
• Cutoff (metalworking), a piercing operation used to cut a workpiece from the stock
• Cutoff grade, in mining, the level of mineral in an ore below which it is not economically feasible to mine it
• Cutoff frequency, in telecommunications and digital signal processing
• Cut-off (electronics), when in a MOSFET device the gate to source control voltage is less than a threshold value denoted by or : then the channel is said to be cut-off, imposing the flow of a very low drain-to-source current
• Meander cutoff, a course change in a meadering river
• Fuse (electrical), a type of overcurrent protection device

Clothing and fashion

• Kutte, a usually sleeveless decorated jacket
• Crop top, 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

Roads, Railroads and Trails

As a route, a cutoff (or cut-off) refers to a new route that is shorter and/or it is more favorable for other reasons than the old or former route.

• Elliott Cutoff, a covered wagon road that branched off the Oregon Trail at the Malheur River
• Goodale's Cutoff, formed a spur of the Oregon Trail in Idaho, United States
• Lackawanna Cut-Off, a former double-track railroad in northwestern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania, built by the Lackawanna Railroad
• Lucin Cutoff, a railroad line that crosses the Great Salt Lake in Utah
• Meek Cutoff, a covered wagon road that branched off the Oregon Trail in north-eastern Oregon
• Patterson Creek Cutoff, an abandoned railroad line built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in northern West Virginia and Western Maryland
• Railroad cutoff, defines what a railroad cutoff is and provides background and examples
• Salt Lake Cutoff, one of the many shortcuts that branched from the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails in the United States

Other uses

• Cut Off, Louisiana, a town in the United States
• Meek's Cutoff, a 2010 outlaw western film directed by Kelly Reichardt
• Position (poker), cutoff is the seat to the right of the dealer or button, second best position

See also

• Cutting off, a hazardous driving technique

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