crossover
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crossover¹
Where it comes from
Deverbal from cross over.
noun crossovers
- A place where one thing crosses over another; a crossing. Lay one pole over the other and tie them together at the crossover.
- The means by which a crossing is made. To get to the other side of the railway, use the crossover.
- A transition. The company has made a crossover into aerospace technology.
- A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
- A combining of characters or plot elements from different fictional universes or settings, or a work that does this. It's a weird crossover between Harry Potter and Frankenstein.
- An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Buick Enclave.
- A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them. 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 coll
- A voter registered as a member of one political party or historically associated with such party who votes in the primary of the other party.
- The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
- An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
- A crossover dribble.
- A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating.
- The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature measured in degrees Celsius.
- A circuit or component that splits an audio signal into different frequency bands, typically so that different frequencies can be sent to different loudspeakers.
- Meeting of various characters.
adjective
- Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.
- Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.
- Of a fictional character, spanning two or more fictional universes or settings.
Crossover²
proper noun
- A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: crossing over, cross-over, criss-cross, crisscross, crossed, overlap, cut-off, mating, transition, dimmer, transit, junction, duplication, convergence, equilibrium, ramp
Translations
Every language
noun place where one thing crosses over another
| Deutsch | Kreuzung, Übergang, Überführung |
|---|---|
| Русский | пересече́ние peresečénije, перехо́д perexód |
noun means by which the crossing is made
| Ελληνικά | μετάβαση metávasi |
|---|
noun SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform
| Español | crossover |
|---|---|
| Português | crossover |
| Français | crossover |
| Deutsch | Crossover |
| Русский | кроссо́вер krossóver, парке́тник parkétnik |
noun result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis
| Español | entrecruzamiento, recombinación |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 乗換え norikae |
| Ελληνικά | επιχιασμός epichiasmós |
| Русский | скре́щивание skréščivanije, кроссо́вер krossóver |
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title = {crossover},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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