crosscutting

[ kraws-kuht-ing, kros- ]
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nounMovies, Television.
  1. the technique of intercutting a scene with portions of another scene, especially to heighten suspense by showing simultaneous action.

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How to use crosscutting in a sentence

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

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

British Dictionary definitions for cross-cutting

cross-cutting

adjective
  1. linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests: a multi-agency, cross-cutting approach on drugs

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