cutting
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right|frame|Different types of scissors – sewing (left), paper (middle), kitchen (right) thumb|upright=1.35|A glass cutter, showing hardened steel cutting wheel (far left), notches for snapping, and ball (on end of handle) for tapping Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object through the application of an acutely directed force.
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right|frame|Different types of scissors – sewing (left), paper (middle), kitchen (right) thumb|upright=1.35|A glass cutter, showing hardened steel cutting wheel (far left), notches for snapping, and ball (on end of handle) for tapping Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object through the application of an acutely directed force.
Implements commonly used for cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the scalpel and microtome. However, any sufficiently sharp object is capable of cutting if it has a hardness sufficiently larger than the object being cut, and if it is applied with sufficient force. Even liquids can be used to cut things when applied with sufficient force (see water jet cutter).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cutting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.