crosscut UK /ˈkɹɒskʌt/US /ˈkɹɔskʌt/noun 5verb 4forms 2 noun5 •A crosswise cut. •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. •An instance of filmic crosscutting. •A crosscut saw. •A shortcut. verb4 •To cut across something. •To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain. •To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.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 •To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. formscrosscutting · crosscuts
