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, United States. The population was 5,533 in 2020. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane– Thibodaux metro ...
, 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 where present-day Vale, Oregon, United States is today. 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
Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century. The road was named for frontiersman Stephen Meek, who ...
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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 rejoi ...
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Tucson Cutoff
The Tucson Cutoff was a significant change in the route of the Southern Emigrant Trail. It became generally known after a party of Forty-Niners led by Colonel John Coffee Hays followed a route suggested to him by a Mexican Army officer as a shor ...
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Woodbury Cutoff
Clothing and fashion
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Cut-off
A cut-off, battle jacket, battle vest or kutte in heavy metal subcultures, is a type of vest or jacket which originated in the U.S. military, specifically the Army Air Corps, where pilots and other aviation personnel would collect patches or o ...
or kutte, a usually sleeveless decorated jacket
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Crop top
A crop is a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. When the plants of the same kind are cultivated at one place on a large scale, it is called a crop. Most crops are cultivated in agriculture or hydroponic ...
, or cutoff, a shirt that exposes the midriff
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Cut-off shorts
Shorts are a garment worn over the pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg. They are called "shorts" because the ...
, 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), 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
Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimens ...
, 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, 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 grad ...
, a course change in a meandering river
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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 ...
, 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 refers to 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 ...
, the seat to the right of the dealer or button, second best position
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Railroad cutoff, 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
Driving etiquette refers to the general courtesy rules communities expect drivers to follow. The term dates back to the early 1900s and the use of horse-drawn carriages.
Driving etiquette typically involves being courteous and staying alert, whic ...
, a hazardous driving technique
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