crosscut

Plural: crosscuts

Noun

a diagonal path
a route shorter than the usual one
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.

Verb

cut using a diagonal line
To cut across something.
To cut across something.
To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
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.

Origin / Etymology

From cross- + cut.

Synonyms

cut across, cutoff, shortcut

Scrabble Score: 12

crosscut is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
crosscut is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
crosscut is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

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