Crosscut

Quick meaning: Crosscut is a noun meaning A crosswise cut.

Meaning

A crosswise cut.

More Meanings

1. A shortcut.
2. An instance of filmic crosscutting.
3. A crosscut saw.
4. To cut across something.
5. (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
6. (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.
7. (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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• crosscuts
• cross-cut
• crosscutting

Synonyms for crosscut

Depending on context, synonyms include cut, cutoff, shortcut.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cut, shortcut, cutoff, overlap, intersect, saw.

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