crosscut

Meanings

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

1. To cut across something.
2. To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
3. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
4. To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.

Etymology

From cross- + cut.