leikkaus
Pronunciation: /ˈlei̯kːɑus/
“leikkaus” is a Finnish word. Its 9 meanings in English:
noun
- cut, cutting (act or result of cutting)
- cut, decrease, reduction
- operation, surgery (surgical procedure, i.e. a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body)
- cut (manner or style in which a garment or an article of clothing is fashioned)
- cut (notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging, e.g. in rock)
- editing (assembling a film by cutting and splicing raw footage)
- intersection (a set created from other sets by taking only the elements present in both or all of those sets)
- section, cut (cross-section drawing of a structure, etc.)
- shear, shearing (deformation because of shearing forces)
Etymology
leikata (“to cut”) + -us
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