crosscut

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crosscut

/ˈkɹɒskʌt/ UK
/ˈkɹɔskʌt/ US
/ˈkɹɑskʌt/ US

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From cross- + cut.

noun crosscuts · cross-cut

A crosswise cut.
A shortcut.
An instance of filmic crosscutting.
A crosscut saw.
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 crosscuts · crosscutting · crosscut · cross-cut

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.
To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
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.

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noun A crosswise cut

Deutsch	Durchhieb, Durchstich, Kreuzhieb

noun level driven across the course of a vein

Deutsch	Querschlag

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@misc{crosscut_2026,
  title = {crosscut},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crosscut},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}