cutting edge

the sharp edge of a cutting implement.

forefront; lead: on the cutting edge of computer technology.

Origin of cutting edge

First recorded in 1950–55

cut·ting-edge, adjective

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

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She was researching the most cutting-edge, experimental, and possibly toxic drugs before she considered going back to basics.

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Where were the cutting-edge studies supportive of [my] view?

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And we needed someone who could organize a cutting-edge ground-game that united all sides of the party.

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The cutting-edge forensic work that it took to bring them into custody from abroad is retold with great aplomb by Levington.

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“Makes you feel like using a phone is a really futuristic, cutting-edge activity,” he said.

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Bear in mind that the shape of the cut made by the plane will be a reversed copy of the shape of the cutting-edge.

Woodworking for Beginners |Charles Gardner Wheeler
The cutting-edge of the maxilla is nearly straight, and there is no tooth in the posterior half of the maxilla.

Extinct Birds |Walter Rothschild
Try to grind squarely across the chisel—that is, to have the cutting-edge at right angles to the lengthways edge of the tool.

Woodworking for Beginners |Charles Gardner Wheeler
The cutting-edge of the plane thus being at right angles with the surface of the board, the edge will be planed squarely across.

Woodworking for Beginners |Charles Gardner Wheeler

cutting edge

the leading position in any field; forefront on the cutting edge of space technology

at the forefront of people or things in a field of activity; leading cutting-edge technology