crossover — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A place where one thing crosses over another.

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2. The means by which the crossing is made.

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3. The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.

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4. A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.

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5. An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Buick Enclave.

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   • Countable
   • Derogatory
   • sometimes
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   Synonyms

   CUVXUV

6. A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.

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   The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.

   Network Rail developed and delivered the new crossover in just ten months - "phenomenally quickly", Mands says - and the work is included in the £20m build cost.

7. A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.

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8. An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.

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9. A crossover dribble.

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10. A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating.

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11. The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature.

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12. Meeting of various characters.

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Adjective

1. Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.

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   • not-comparable

2. Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through. Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.

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   • not-comparable
   • in particular
   • of an Ethernet cable

Noun

1. the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis

   Synonyms

   crossing over

   Broader terms

   organic processbiological process

2. a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party

   Synonyms

   crossover voter

   Broader terms

   voterelector

3. the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience

   Broader terms

   borrowingadoption

   Examples

   a jazz-classical crossover album

4. a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

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   crossingcrosswalk

   Broader terms

   path