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This template has a "helper" template for each new season that calculates the point totals at each cut-off point. Each season needs its own dedicated template (i.e. {{Snooker season points/2010/2011}}) since tournaments may be added or removed from the calendar, and the cut-off points may vary from season to season. Here are some pointers:
This is a route-map template for the Mayfield Cutoff, a California Southern Pacific line.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap. For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue . Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext.
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The term "cutoff" refers to the fact that the new line cuts off distance (and/or time) and is, therefore, shorter distance-wise (or time-wise) than the old line. This is often the case, although the primary reason for building the cutoff may be to create a line with a better gradient profile, or other desirable features usually related to efficiency of operation that are lacking in the old ...
If removal of a point doesn't result in disconnected spaces, this point is called a non-cut point. For example, every point of a line is a cut-point, while no point of a circle is a cut-point. Cut-points are useful to determine whether two connected spaces are homeomorphic by counting the number of cut-points in each space.
A sentence in Hastings' guidebook briefly describes the cutoff: The most direct route, for the California emigrants, would be to leave the Oregon route, about two hundred miles east from Fort Hall; thence bearing West Southwest, to the Salt Lake; and thence continuing down to the bay of St. Francisco, by the route just described.
In a steam engine, cutoff is the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed. On a steam locomotive, the cutoff is controlled by the reversing gear.. The point at which the inlet valve closes and stops the entry of steam into the cylinder from the boiler plays a crucial role in the control of a steam engine.