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Crosscut

//ˈkɹɒskʌt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A crosswise cut.
  2. 2
    a route shorter than the usual one wordnet
  3. 3
    A shortcut.
  4. 4
    a diagonal path wordnet
  5. 5
    An instance of filmic crosscutting.
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  1. 6
    A crosscut saw.
  2. 7
    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.
Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    cut using a diagonal line wordnet
  3. 3
    To cut across something.; To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
  4. 4
    To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
  5. 5
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From cross- + cut.

Etymology 2

From cross- + cut.

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