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Etymology

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From cross- +‎ cut.

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Noun

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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.

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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.

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