crosscut

Etymology

From cross- + cut.

noun

1. A crosswise cut.
2. A shortcut.
3. An instance of filmic crosscutting.
4. A crosscut saw.
5. (mining) 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

1. To cut across something.
   1. To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
      Coordinate term: rip (verb)
2. (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
3. (software engineering) 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. 2003, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34