Cutter, Charles Ammi

Cutter, Charles Ammi, 1837-1903, American librarian, b. Boston. Cutter cataloged the library of the Harvard Divinity School and in 1860 was appointed as the assistant to the librarian of Harvard. As librarian of the Boston Athenæum (1868-93) he was a pioneer in subject cataloging. The Athenæum catalog (5 vol., 1874-82) served as a model for later dictionary catalogs. His Rules for a Dictionary Catalog (1875) was the first work of its kind. Cutter's system of classification, Expansive Classification (1891-93), used the alphabet instead of numbers; it was the basis of the Library of Congress classification. From 1893 until his death Cutter was librarian of the Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass.

Cutter may refer to:

• Cutter (ship), any of several types of small water vessel
• United States Coast Guard Cutter
• Cutter location, the position where a CNC milling machine has been instructed to hold a milling cutter
• Cutter v. Wilkinson, a 2005 United States Supreme Court case
• Cutter Expansive Classification, a library classification system
• Charles Ammi Cutter, the man who created the system
• cutter number, a suffix used in this and other library classification systems
• Cookie-cutter, something unimaginative or identical to previous iterations
• Cutter (body modification), an underground who performs surgical tasks that other surgeons refuse to do
• Someone who practices self-injury.
• Cutter Bug spray
• Coors Cutter a discontinued non-alcoholic beverage from Coors

Tools:

• Cookie cutter, used to cut out cookie dough in a particular shape
• Box cutter, a utility knife
• Glass cutter, a hand tool which aids in the cutting of flat or pane glass
• Hydraulic spreader-cutter, an emergency rescue device

Businesses and organizations:

• Cutter Consortium, an information technology research firm
• Cutter Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley, California
• Cutter & Buck, a manufacturer of golf apparel
• Cutter's Mill, a chain of pet supply stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

In sport:

• Cutter (baseball), a type of fastball
• Cutter Bill, a quarter horse stallion
• Off cutter and leg cutter, types of delivery in the sport of cricket
• Cutter (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling move

In entertainment:

• John Cutter, character name of Wesley Snipes the 2003 movie Passenger 57
• John Cutter is an American computer game designer - see also Amiga
• Nick Cutter, a character from the 2007 ITV science fiction series Primeval
• Cutter to Houston, a 1983 television series
• Cutter and Bone, a 1976 thriller novel
• Cutter John, a character in the comic strip Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed
• Cutter, the protagonist of the Elfquest series of graphic novels
• Cutter, a minor character from the G.I. Joe universe
• "The Cutter", a 1983 single by Echo & the Bunnymen
• "Cutters", in the 1979 cycling movie "Breaking Away", an initially derogatory term used to refer to the local youths living in Bloomington, Indiana, by the resident Indiana college students. 'Cutters' is a reference to the local stone cutting industry of the town.
• "Cutter", nickname of fictional character Captain Spaulding
• The Cutter, a 2005 direct-to-video film starring Chuck Norris

See also

• Cut
• Cutting (disambiguation)
• Qatar