ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cutover

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Cutover is an adjective meaning Having been cleared of valuable timber.

Meaning

Having been cleared of valuable timber.

More Meanings

  1. An area of cutover land.
  2. The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
  3. (by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine or system so as to minimize downtime.
  4. (telecommunications) 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.

Example Sentences

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 mentioned. By this means the cut-over was accomplished almost momentarily, the process occupying not over two seconds’ time.

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Related dictionary entries include transfer, relocation, offcut, cut-down, exempt, discided.

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