Meaning

A crosswise cut..

Definitions by Sense

1. A crosswise cut.
2. A shortcut.
3. An instance of filmic crosscutting.
4. A crosscut saw.
5. (mining) A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another through the country rock.
6. To cut across something.
7. (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
8. (software engineering) To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.

Example Sentences

Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.

Once we've implemented a concern in the component language, we need to perform an analysis to determine where ancillary concerns might crosscut the code.

Word Forms

• crosscuts
• cross-cut
• crosscutting
• crosscut

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