crosscut

noun

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

   “Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.”

2. To cut across something.
3. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
4. 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.”