Cutaway Definition
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cutaways
noun
cutaways
A coat with the front of the skirt cut so as to curve back to the tails, worn by men for formal daytime occasions.
Webster's New World
A brief shot that interrupts the main action of a film, often to depict related matter or supposedly concurrent action.
American Heritage
A model or diagram of an object with part of the outer layer removed so as to reveal the interior.
American Heritage
An inward dive.
American Heritage
(television) A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.
2004, Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots ... — The New Yorker, 18 Oct 2004
Wiktionary
adjective
Designating or of a diagram or model showing, in cross section, or with walls, etc. cut away, the parts or workings, as of a structure or machine.
Webster's New World
(3D graphics) Having selectively removed surface elements of a three-dimensional model that make internal features visible, but without sacrificing the outer context entirely.
2004, While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object. CADalyst, Jan 2004
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