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Cutter number

American  
[kuht-er] / ˈkʌt ər /

noun

Library Science.
  1. a code combining decimal numbers with letters from an author's surname, used in an alphabetizing system.


Etymology

Origin of Cutter number

After Charles A. Cutter (1837–1903), U.S. librarian, whose classification system had a similar feature

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