English Explanatory Dictionary

cutover

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
  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.
  4. Any process of quickly replacing a machine or system so as to minimize downtime.

Word forms

cutover cut-over cutovers

Etymology

From cut + over.

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