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cutpoint

noun
/ˈkʌtˌpɔɪnt/CA/ˈkʊtˌpɔɪnt/

Etymology

From cut + point.

  1. derived from *pungō✻ — “to sting, prick”
  2. derived from pūnctus
  3. derived from pointe
  4. derived from pūnctum — “a hole punched in; a point, puncture”
  5. derived from point
  6. inherited from poynt
  7. compounded as cutpoint — “cut + point”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. A cutoff point

    A cutoff point; a threshold value.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cutpoint. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA