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crosscut

noun
/ˈkɹɒskʌt/UK/ˈkɹɔskʌt/US

Etymology

From cross- + cut.

  1. derived from *kwetwą✻ — “meat, flesh”
  2. derived from *kutjaną✻
  3. derived from *kytja✻
  4. inherited from cutten
  5. formed as crosscut — “cross- + cut”

Definitions

  1. A crosswise cut.

  2. A shortcut.

  3. An instance of filmic crosscutting.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A crosscut saw.

    2. A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as…

      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.

    3. To cut across something.

      • 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.

    4. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.

    5. To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in…

      To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.

      • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crosscut. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA