<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of cutting off</li><li>something that cuts off</li><li>a road, passage, etc., that leaves another, usually providing a shortcut: Let's take the cutoff to Baltimore</li><li>a new and shorter channel formed in a river by the water cutting across a bend in its course</li><li>a point, time, or stage serving as the limit beyond which something is no longer effective, applicable, or possible</li><li>cutoffs, also cut-offs</li><li>shorts made by cutting the legs off a pair of trousers, especially jeans, above the knees and often leaving the cut edges ragged</li><li>Accounting: a selected point at which records are considered complete for the purpose of settling accounts, taking inventory, etc.</li><li>Baseball: an infielder's interception of a ball thrown from the outfield in order to relay it to home plate or keep a base runner from advancing</li><li>Machinery: arrest of the steam moving the pistons of an engine, usually occurring before the completion of a stroke</li><li>Electronics: (in a vacuum tube) the minimum grid potential preventing an anode current</li><li>Rocketry: the termination of propulsion, either by shutting off the propellant flow or by stopping the combustion of the propellant</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>being or constituting the limit or ending: a cutoff date for making changes</li></ul>