Meanings
- not comparableAcross platforms.
In person, Huff looks exactly as she does on her massively popular Instagram account, her sheer foundation and subtle bronze eyeshadow catching the spotlight just like they do the ring light. She has the cross-platform ease of someone who’s been famous forever because she basically has been.
2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan - not comparablecomputingOf software, etc., designed to work on various operating systems.
Synonyms: multi-platform · Antonyms: single-platform, monoplatform
- not comparablerail transportThat takes place between two trains in different platforms, usually across an island platform.
1 more example
At Euston the cross-platform interchange between the Victoria Line and the Northern Line (City branch) will be unusual in that passengers will board trains travelling in the opposite direction to continue their journey. Normally, of course, in cross-platform interchange, trains depart in the same direction.
1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf software, etc., designed to work on various operating systems.
Origin
Translations
Catalan multiplataforma
- multiplataformadesigned to work on various operating systems
Chinese Mandarin 跨平台
- 跨平台 (kuàpíngtái)designed to work on various operating systems
Finnish järjestelmäriippumaton, alustariippumaton
- järjestelmäriippumatondesigned to work on various operating systems
- alustariippumatondesigned to work on various operating systems
French multiplateforme, multiplate-forme
- multiplateformedesigned to work on various operating systems
- multiplate-formedesigned to work on various operating systems
- multi-plateformedesigned to work on various operating systems
German plattformübergreifend
- plattformübergreifenddesigned to work on various operating systems
Italian multipiattaforma
- multipiattaformadesigned to work on various operating systems
Japanese クロスプラットフォームの
- クロスプラットフォームの (Kurosupurattofōmu no)designed to work on various operating systems
Portuguese multiplataforma
- multiplataformadesigned to work on various operating systems
Russian кросс-платфо́рменный, межплатфо́рменный
- кросс-платфо́рменный (kross-platfórmennyj)designed to work on various operating systems
- межплатфо́рменный (mežplatfórmennyj)designed to work on various operating systems
Spanish multiplataforma
- multiplataformadesigned to work on various operating systems
Swedish plattformsoberoende
- plattformsoberoendedesigned to work on various operating systems
Turkish çok platformlu
- çok platformludesigned to work on various operating systems
Cite this entry
cross-platform. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-platform
“cross-platform.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-platform. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cross-platform,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-platform.
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