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Cutoff

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ413529
Source-derived summary

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.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 213-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cutoff, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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This entry incorporates text from Cutoff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.