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cutover

cutover adjective: having been cleared of valuable timber.

Adjective

cutover (not comparable)

  1. Having been cleared of valuable timber.

Noun

cutover (countable and uncountable, plural cutovers)

  1. An area of cutover land.
  2. The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
  3. The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
    • After the heat coils were pulled on the old main frame, the remaining step was merely to pull the wooden plugs on the new switchboard by the strings attached to them (which are bunched together) upon a signal given from the old terminal room, indicating the removal of the heat coils above...1913, Bell Telephone News, volume 2, number 7, page 18
  4. (broadly) Any process of quickly replacing a machine or system so as to minimize downtime.

Forms of cutover

Adjective
alternative formcut-over
Noun
pluralcutovers

Origin of cutover

From cut + over.

Questions about cutover

What does cutover mean?
Cutover means having been cleared of valuable timber.
What part of speech is cutover?
Cutover can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near cutover in the dictionary

  1. cutor
  2. cutors
  3. cutose
  4. cutout
  5. cutouts
  6. cutover
  7. cutovers
  8. cutpiece
  9. cutpieces
  10. cutplane
  11. cutplanes

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