crosscut

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A crosswise cut.
2. 2
   A shortcut.
3. 3
   An instance of filmic crosscutting.
4. 4
   A crosscut saw.
5. 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. 1
   To cut across something.
2. 2
   To cut across something: To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
3. 3
   To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
4. 4
   To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.