Cutoff Explained

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

Alternative routes (US:Westward Expansion Trails)

• Elliott Cutoff
• Hastings Cutoff
• Lander Cutoff
• Lassen Cutoff
• Meek Cutoff
• Salt Lake Cutoff
• Tucson Cutoff
• Woodbury Cutoff

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.
• Cutoff functions, a construction used to eliminate singularities of a given function.
• 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
• Cutoff Mountain, a summit in Montana

See also

• Cutting off, a hazardous driving technique