cutover

Adjective

 * 1) Having been cleared of valuable timber.

Noun

 * 1) An area of cutover land.
 * 2) The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
 * 3) The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
 * 4)  Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
 * 1)  Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.