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cut

1. Botany incised or divided

2. Veterinary science gelded or castrated

3. Economics a decrease in government finance in a particular department or area, usually leading to a reduction of services, staff numbers, etc.

4. short for power cut

5. Chiefly US and Canadian a quantity of timber cut during a specific time or operation

6. Sport the spin of a cut ball

7. Cricket a stroke made with the bat in a roughly horizontal position

8. Films an immediate transition from one shot to the next, brought about by splicing the two shots together

9. Chem a fraction obtained in distillation, as in oil refining

10. the metal removed in a single pass of a machine tool

11. 

a. the shape of the teeth of a file

b. their coarseness or fineness

12. Brit a stretch of water, esp a canal

13. make the cut Golf to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds

14. miss the cut Golf to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds

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cut [kət]

(biochemistry)

A double-strand incision in a duplex deoxyribonucleic acid molecule.

(chemical engineering)

A fraction obtained by a separation process.

(crystallography)

A section of a crystal having two parallel major surfaces; cuts are specified by their orientation with respect to the axes of the natural crystal, such as X cut, Y cut, BT cut, and AT cut.

(graphic arts)

A photoengraving used in letterpress printing.

(lapidary)

The style in which a gem is cut, such as brilliant cut, single cut, or rose cut.

(mathematics)

A subset of a given set whose removal from the original set leaves a set that is not connected.

(metallurgy)

fraction

(mining engineering)

To intersect a vein or a working.

To excavate coal.

To shear one side of an entry or a crosscut by digging out the coal from floor to roof with a pick.

(cell and molecular biology)

A double-strand incision in a duplex deoxyribonucleic acid molecule.

(nucleonics)

The fraction that is removed as product or advanced to the next separative element in an isotope separation process.

(textiles)

The number of needles per inch in the cylinder or needle bed in a knitting frame.

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CUT - Coordinated Universal Time