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What are Cuts and Jumpers in an electrical circuit board?

Does any body know what it means by "Cuts and Jumpers" when it comes to electical circuit boards? I am trying to write this report that someone else started and need to understand the terminology as I am doing it.

A PCB (printed circuit board) or even veroboard (Plastic board with copper strips and holes) are used for mounting electronic components. The boards themselves make up the circuit, with copper tracks that connect components together make the desired circuit. Printed circuit boards are more adaptable because a circuit can be printed exactly as it should be, but if you use vero board, (parallel strips of copper) you would need to make cuts in the tracks to prevent components shorting together.
Jumpers are basically bits of wire that link a circuit from one track to another.

Sorry, veroboard is a manufacturers name, the product is stripboard. Here's an example:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=verobaord&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1240&bih=592

If you imagine a microchip with 8 pins or legs and you were to mount it on stripboard, then the four legs on one side would be electrically connected to the four legs on the other side, thereby shorting them. You would need to make cuts in the space between the legs to separate them.

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