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leikkaus

Pronunciation: /ˈlei̯kːɑus/

“leikkaus” is a Finnish word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  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)
  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)

Etymology

leikata (“to cut”) + -us

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