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(computer graphics) Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior. quotations examples
While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.
2004 January, CADalyst
plural cutaways
(television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. quotations
the director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montage cutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor.
2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club
(television) A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction. quotations examples
Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]
2004 October 18, The New Yorker
A coat with a tapered frontline. examples
A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior quotations examples
[...] The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, and cutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed.
1959 March, “New Reading on Railways: The Railwayman's Diesel Manual. By William F. Bolton. G. H. Lake. 7s. 6d.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172
(music) An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets. examples