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Definition of Cutting edge

1. Noun. The position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field. "The idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy"

Definition of Cutting edge

1. Noun. the sharp edge of the blade of a knife or other cutting tool ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) (''by extension'') the forefront, or position of greatest advancement in some field ¹

3. Adjective. (alternative form of cutting-edge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Cutting edge

1. The beveled, knifelike, sharpened working angle of a dental hand instrument. Synonym: incisal edge. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutting Edge

Literary usage of Cutting edge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Foundations of Bridges and Buildings by Henry Sylvester Jacoby, Roland Parker Davis (1914)
"strains and abrasive action of sinking; second, it must be of a form which will allow the caisson to sink readily without excavating under the cutting edge; ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The process of tempering then consists of two steps, the first of which consists in imparting to the cutting edge of the tool a degree of hardness that is ..."

3. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"With the cutting edge ahead of the center, as in Fig. 3, the chips as produced are caused to move outward away from the work and prevented from disfiguring ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The larger knife is 330 mm. long; its cutting edge is 185 mm. long, and it is 12 mm. thick at the back. The smaller knife is 1GO mm. long; its cutting edge ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"The teeth were flat, and had a serrated cutting edge like the teeth of the iguana ; and hence the name, signifying iguana- like teeth ; many of them, ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"The teeth were flat, and had a serrated cutting edge like the teeth of the iguana ; and hence the name, signifying iguana- like teeth ; many of them, ..."

7. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"If, however, the drill is not ground true, the strain upon it becomes very great, because the whole force of the cut is then placed upon one cutting edge ..."

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