crosscut
verbEtymology From cross- + cut.
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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
3
Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
4
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software 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: