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cross-talk

cross-talk is the alternative spelling of crosstalk.

Meaning of crosstalk

Noun

crosstalk (countable and uncountable, plural crosstalks)

  1. Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
  2. The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
  3. Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
    • I couldn't hear the opening address because of all the crosstalk around me.
  4. A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
    Synonyms:
    xiangsheng
  5. Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
    • Sharing resources for mutual benefit: crosstalk between disciplines deepns the understanding of mycorrhizal symbioses.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 239

See all 6 meanings of crosstalk

Forms of cross-talk

Noun
pluralcross-talks
Verb
third-person singular presentcross-talks
present participlecross-talking
past participlecross-talked
pastcross-talked

Questions about cross-talk

What is cross-talk the alternative spelling of?
Cross-talk is the alternative spelling of crosstalk.

Words near cross-talk in the dictionary

  1. cross-tab
  2. cross-tabs
  3. cross-tabulate
  4. cross-tail
  5. cross-tails
  6. cross-talk
  7. cross-thread
  8. cross-threaded
  9. cross-threading
  10. cross-threadings
  11. cross-threads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cross-talk (page history and authors); crosstalk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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