Crossover

Quick meaning: Crossover is a noun meaning A place where one thing crosses over another.

Meaning

A place where one thing crosses over another.

More Meanings

1. The means by which the crossing is made.
2. (genetics) The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
3. A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
4. (sometimes derogatory) An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Buick Enclave.
5. A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
6. (sports) An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
7. (rail transport) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.

Example Sentences

Network Rail developed and delivered the new crossover in just ten months - "phenomenally quickly", Mands says - and the work is included in the £20m build cost.

The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.

Word Forms

• crossovers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cross-over, criss-cross, crisscross, crossed, overlap, cut-off.

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