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leikkaus.

cut, cutting (act or result of cutting)

8 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈlei̯kːɑus/[ˈle̞i̯kːɑ̝us̠]
  1. cut, cutting (act or result of cutting)

  2. cut, decrease, reduction

  3. operation, surgery (surgical procedure, i.e. a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body)

    leikkaushoitaja
  4. cut (manner or style in which a garment or an article of clothing is fashioned)

  5. cut (notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging, e.g. in rock)

  6. editing (assembling a film by cutting and splicing raw footage)

  7. intersection (a set created from other sets by taking only the elements present in both or all of those sets)

  8. section, cut (cross-section drawing of a structure, etc.)

  9. shear, shearing (deformation because of shearing forces)

Where this word comes from

leikata (“to cut”) + -us

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