CUTTING-EDGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cutting-edge mean? 

• CUTTING-EDGE (adjective)
  The adjective CUTTING-EDGE has 1 sense:

1. in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style

  Familiarity information: CUTTING-EDGE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTTING-EDGE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In accord with the most fashionable ideas or style

Synonyms:

cutting-edge; up-to-date; up to date; with-it

Context example:

a with-it boutique

Similar:

fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)

 Context examples 

The Russian telescope will be the most cutting-edge device in operation in Brazil.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

At the Center, patient care units are in close proximity to cutting-edge technologies and laboratories doing related research.

(NIH Clinical Center, NCI Thesaurus)

MIT’s cutting-edge technique simply requires a laser and an absorbent gel (commonly used in baby diapers) — materials that most biology and engineering labs already have.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Using a cutting-edge NeuroGrid system they invented, along with recording electrodes placed deeper into the brain, the researchers examined activity in several parts of rats’ brains during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, the longest stage of sleep.

(Study shows how memories ripple through the brain, National Institutes of Health)

The team used cutting-edge technologies in the Bigelow Laboratory's Single Cell Genomics Center to analyze samples collected throughout the tropics and subtropics — two thirds of the world's oceans — to learn about global distribution patterns.

(Study analyzing cells' blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbes, National Science Foundation)