cutover

Meanings

Adjective

• Having been cleared of valuable timber.

Noun

• An area of cutover land.
• The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
• 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.
• Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.

Origin

• cut + over