crosscut

A crosswise cut.

A shortcut.

An instance of filmic crosscutting.

A crosscut saw.

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.

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.

To cut across something.

To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.

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.