crosscutting

[ kraws-kuht-ing, kros- ]

noun

, Movies, Television.

1. the technique of intercutting a scene with portions of another scene, especially to heighten suspense by showing simultaneous action.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crosscutting¹

cross- + cutting

Example Sentences

Blount recalled his men from the drifts where 91they had been working and set them to crosscutting for the vein.

From Project Gutenberg

We'd got down about sixty feet, all timbered, and was thinking of crosscutting.

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