crosscutting

American  

[kraws-kuht-ing, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌkʌt ɪŋ, ˈkrɒs- /

noun

Movies, 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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Etymology

Origin of crosscutting

cross- + cutting

Example Sentences

But crosscutting concerns for months had made it impossible to gain traction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

And yet, the series takes pains to connect them, thematically and visually, in the editing process, through crosscutting that links them throughout different periods of their lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

There’s the part at the end of the song that’s crosscutting between Harris and Evelyn, and Nathan Lane just floats this lovely falsetto at the end.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

Calm skies must also prevail because crosscutting winds called shear can rip holes in a nascent hurricane’s vortex.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

The waters of Scrubgrass Bend, for instance, were crosscutting over Scrubgrass Towhead in one league-wide sheet, and Islands Seventy-this-and-that and Islands Sixty-that-and-this were under them to their tree-tops.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington