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Contents 1 Mathematics 2 Locations 3 Computing 4 In music 5 Phrases starting with "cut" 6 Cuts 7 As an acronym 8 See also

Cut and similar may refer to:

• A type of wound, usually a laceration or incision into the skin
• Cut (earthmoving), removal of soil or rock, as opposed to fill
• Cut (filmmaking), an immediate transition to a new shot
• Un-cut, an uncensored version of a film or video
• Cut (novel), a 2000 novel
• Cut (2000 film), an Australian film starring Molly Ringwald and Kylie Minogue
• Cut (cards), dividing a deck of cards for randomness before dealing
• Cut (clothing), a garment's style, as opposed to its fabric or trim
• Cut (archaeology), a "negative" archaeological context representing the removal of part of the archaeological record at the time of the cut's creation
• Cut (gems), the finishing process applied to a rough gemstone
• The act of circumcision, or having been circumcised
• In sports, cut refers to a player being released from his or her employment contract (or in an amateur team, being dismissed from the team)
• Cut, Pittsburgh slang for an eighth (1/8) of an ounce of cannabis
• Colloquially, the term appears in expressions such as in "to cut the cheese" or "to cut a fart"

[edit] Mathematics

• Cut (graph theory), a notion in graph theory
• In logic, the removal of an intermediate and irrelevant proposition (such as a lemma)
  • Cut-elimination theorem, which states that any proof that uses cuts can be remade to not need cuts
• Dedekind cut, a partition of a totally ordered set into two subsets, used to define real numbers
• In topology, the removal of a point to make a set disconnected
• In complex analysis, a branch cut, the removal of a set of points from the plane to leave an analytic branch

[edit] Locations

• Cut, Alba, a commune in Alba County, Romania
• Cut River, a river in Michigan, United States

[edit] Computing

• cut (Unix), a command to read only certain parts of lines
• Cut (logic programming), a way to indicate that further solutions need not be checked

[edit] In music

• Cut (music), a certain repetition in African American music
• The cut drum, a Grenadan folk drum
• Cut (The Slits album), 1979
• Cut (Golden Earring album), 1982
• Cut (Hunters and Collectors album), 1992
• Cut (Crack the Sky album), 1998
• Cut (C-Tec album), 2000
• "Cut" (Plumb song)
• "Cut", a song by The Cure on their album Wish
• "Cutting a track" is studio slang for recording a section of music ("cutting" is a reference to Edison wax cylinders)
• In Classical music or opera, a "cut" occurs when a conductor removes a section from the score to shorten the length of a piece

[edit] Phrases starting with "cut"

• Cut, copy, and paste, a widely used procedure for editing text
• Cut and fill, a process of building a railway, road, or canal

[edit] Cuts

• Cuts, a television series on UPN

[edit] As an acronym

• Curtin University of Technology in Australia
• Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein
• Chaoyang University of Technology in Taiwan
• Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe
• Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious movement
• Cincinnati Union Terminal, a railroad station in Cincinnati, OH
• Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores, a trade union in Costa Rica
• Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú, a trade union in Peru
• Coordinated Universal Time, International Atomic Time (TAI)
• Cyprus University of Technology (known locally as TEPAK) in Lemesos, Cyprus
• Compact Utility Tractor
• Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications, a UK political pressure group

[edit] See also

• Cutting (disambiguation)
• Cutter
• Final cut
• Cutaway
• Cut-out
• Cut-throat

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