Definition of "crosscut"

crosscut

/ˈkɹɒskʌt/

noun
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.
verb
third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut
1. To cut across something.
  Quotations
  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.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  1. To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  2003, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34