cut-out

Definitions

• A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.
• A piece cut out of something.
• A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.
• (computing) clip Clip art.
• (electronics) Any of several devices that halts the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.
• (telegraphy) A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
• (US) A railway cutting.
• (US) The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.