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)

A crosswise cut.
A shortcut.
An instance of filmic crosscutting.
A crosscut saw.
(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)

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)
(film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
(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