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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

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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 table
  3. cross tabs
  4. cross tabulation
  5. cross tabulations
  6. cross talk
  7. cross term
  8. cross terms
  9. cross that bridge when one comes to it
  10. cross that bridge when one gets there
  11. cross that bridge when one gets to it

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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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