title: Cutoff
text: # Cutoff
  
  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
  * Meander cutoff, a course change in a meandering river
  * Thermal cutoff, an electrical safety device that interrupts electric current when heated to a specific temperature
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Cut-off (poker), the seat to the right of the dealer or button, second best position
  * Railroad cutoff, a new railroad line built to replace or supplement an existing route
  * Cutoff Mountain, a summit in Montana
  