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cut through

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(1) In a communications switch, the connecting of one circuit to another. See cut-through switch.

(2) In a voice processing system, the capability to interrupt playback of a voice prompt upon detection of a user's voice response or a tone from a key depression. It enables fast "skipping" to the next part of the script.



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In the course of half an hour Mary thought she could tell too, and when he cut through a lifeless-looking branch she would cry out joyfully under her breath when she caught sight of the least shade of moist green.
The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context
When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal {32} Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice (she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight.
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However, Captain Nemo had rushed to the poulp, and with one blow of the axe had cut through one arm.
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