crosscut

English

Alternative forms

• cross-cut

Etymology

From cross- +‎ cut.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ (also, especially formerly /ˈkɹɔːskʌt/)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɔskʌt/, /ˈkɹɑskʌt/
• Hyphenation: cross‧cut
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

crosscut (plural crosscuts)

1. A crosswise cut.
2. A shortcut.
3. An instance of filmic crosscutting.
4. A crosscut saw.
5. (mining) 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.

Translations

A crosswise cut

• Bulgarian: напречен разрез (naprečen razrez)
• Finnish: vaakaleikkaus
• German: Durchhieb m, Durchstich m, Kreuzhieb m

shortcut — see shortcut

instance of crosscutting in film

crosscut saw — see crosscut saw

level driven across the course of a vein

• German: Querschlag m

Verb

crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)

1. To cut across something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

   1. To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.

      Coordinate term: rip (verb)

2. (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
3. (software engineering) To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.
   • 2003, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34:

     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.

Translations

To cut or saw across the grain of timber

• Maori: kani tāmaku