leikkaus

leikata (“to cut”) +‎ -us

• IPA^(key): /ˈlei̯kːɑus/, [ˈle̞i̯kːɑ̝us̠]
• Rhymes: -eikːɑus
• Syllabification^(key): leik‧ka‧us
• Hyphenation^(key): leik‧ka‧us

leikkaus

1. cut, cutting (act or result of cutting)
2. (economics, politics) cut, decrease, reduction
3. (surgery) operation, surgery (surgical procedure, i.e. a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body)

   leikkaushoitaja ― perioperative nurse

4. (clothing) cut (manner or style in which a garment or an article of clothing is fashioned)
5. (engineering) cut (notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging, e.g. in rock)
6. (cinematography) editing (assembling a film by cutting and splicing raw footage)
7. (set theory) intersection (a set created from other sets by taking only the elements present in both or all of those sets)
8. (technical drawing) section, cut (cross-section drawing of a structure, etc.)
9. shear, shearing (deformation because of shearing forces)

• “leikkaus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

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