comma vs cutoff

comma

noun
  • A brief interval. 

  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. 

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 

verb
  • To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. 

cutoff

noun
  • The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited. 

  • A cessation in a flow or activity. 

  • A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut. 

  • A device that stops the flow of a current. 

  • A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off). 

  • Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers. 

  • The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop. 

  • A horizontal line separating sections of the page. 

  • A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization. 

adj
  • Constituting a limit or ending. 

  • Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar. 

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