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cutting edge

noun

  1. the sharp edge of a cutting implement.
  2. forefront; lead:

    on the cutting edge of computer technology.



cutting edge

noun

  1. the leading position in any field; forefront

    on the cutting edge of space technology

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. at the forefront of people or things in a field of activity; leading

    cutting-edge technology

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cutting edge1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences

Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.

It is cutting-edge products like these that are helping define this new age of wireless entertainment.

Some are hard neuroscientists, aware that this is a cool cutting edge of research.

“Americans thought then we were at the cutting edge figuring out typhus and yellow fever,” says Bennett.

In Turkey the Qataris flew French Mirage jets, not exactly cutting edge equipment but still formidable.

A number of slots are cut across one side of the can, and the lower edge of each slot slightly turned out to form a cutting edge.

At and on the ships, men would set hand to whatever tool of cutting edge was accessible.

The flatter surfaces nearly meet at the end opposite the cutting edge, leaving this end thin.

A bit ground along the dotted line has a cutting edge which will spring down, and consequently break or produce a rough surface.

The tool (Fig. 25), with a straight cutting edge, is the proper one to rough off cast iron.

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