Cut - Definition and Overview

A cut can be:

• a laceration, such as to the skin.
• a version, such as of a movie.
• a blockage, such as in a supply line.
• the act of cutting a shuffled deck for randomization purposes during a card game deal.
• in civil engineering for (rail)road construction a cut is an excavation e.g. through a hill, see fill.
• a removal, such as haircut or trees.
• a command given by a director to stop filming.
• the Unix cut command to read only certain parts of a line.
• A rule, cut in certain logical deduction systems, which says that if (A, B, . . .) imply C, and C implies D, then (A, B, . . .) imply D. Hence the C is "cut" out of the implication.
• Cut, a notion in graph theory.

See also: cutting