Look up: Cross-cutting

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   cross cutting
   Cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indicating they are happening simultaneously.
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   cross-cutting
   of wood in general,cutting across the grain,so creating an end and exposing a cross-section Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • sawing timber across the grain Category: Building industry
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   Cross-cutting
   `Cross-cutting` is an editing technique used in films to establish continuity. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action. Because the shots occur one after another, cross-cutting is used to suggest simultaneity of action. However, it can also be used to link significant actions that do not occur simultaneously. For instance, in D.W. Griffith's `A Corner in Wheat`, the film cross-cuts between the activities of rich...
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   cross-cutting
   An interruption of one geologic feature by another, which can give an indication of the relative ages of these geologic features/events; for example, a fault cutting across an impact crater would be younger than the crater.
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   Crosscutting
   Cutting across the wood grain; to crosscut a board is to cut across its width.
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   crosscutting
   (from the article `dating`) ...to deduce that certain units have been offset by movement along fractures or faults while others have not. Dikes that cross fault boundaries may ...
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