kaputol
Kaputol is a Tagalog term that literally means "cutoff" or "break." It is commonly used to describe a sudden interruption, discontinuity, or termination of a sequence, service, or relationship. The word is derived from the root kaputol, which is formed by the prefix ka- and the root puhol, meaning "to sever" or "to cut."
In everyday speech, kaputol is often applied to situations such as interruptions in a telephone call, the
Kaputol also appears in legal and bureaucratic contexts to indicate the ending of a statutory period or
The term has intuitive parallels in other Austronesian languages. It appears in various dialects of Visayan