crosscut

plural crosscuts · alternative cross-cut

1. A crosswise cut.
2. A shortcut.
3. An instance of filmic crosscutting.
4. A crosscut saw.
5. businessA 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.

present singular third person crosscuts · participle present crosscutting · alternative cross-cut

1. To cut across something.

   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, →OCLC

   1. To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
2. broadcastingTo cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
3. computingTo 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, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34