cutpoint
UK/ˈkʌtˌpɔɪnt/
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Northern England/ˈkʊtˌpɔɪnt/
cutpoint noun: a point of a connected space whose removal causes the resulting space to be disconnected.
Noun
cutpoint (plural cutpoints)
- A point of a connected space whose removal causes the resulting space to be disconnected.
- Every point of a line is a cutpoint, but no point of a circle is a cutpoint.
- A cutoff point; a threshold value.
- In 2007 the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) proposed single blood pressure (BP) cutpoints (systolic: ≥130 mm Hg and diastolic: ≥85 mm Hg) for the diagnosis of high blood pressure (HBP) in adolescents. Before this proposal, HBP had been defined as BP at or above the 95th percentile for age...2017, P Brambilla, A Andreano, L Antolini, et al., “How Accurate Is a Single Cutpoint to Identify High Blood Pressure in Adolescents?”, in Am J Epidemiol, volume 185, number 4, →DOI, →PMID, pages...
Forms of cutpoint
| plural | cutpoints |
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Origin of cutpoint
From cut + point.
Questions about cutpoint
- What does cutpoint mean?
- Cutpoint means a point of a connected space whose removal causes the resulting space to be disconnected.
- What part of speech is cutpoint?
- Cutpoint is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cutpoint?
- Cutpoint is pronounced /ˈkʌtˌpɔɪnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cutpoint?
- The plural of cutpoint is cutpoints.
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