crossover
crossover noun: a place where one thing crosses over another.
Noun
crossover (countable and uncountable, plural crossovers)
- A place where one thing crosses over another.
- The means by which the crossing is made.
- The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
- A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
- An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Buick Enclave.
- A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
- 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...1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76
- 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.2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 40
- A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
- An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
- A crossover dribble.
- A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating.
- The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature.
- Meeting of various characters.
Adjective
crossover (not comparable)
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Crossover
Crossover
crossover meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
crossover in Hindi
- क्रॉसओवर
crossover in Tamil
- கிராஸ்ஓவர்
crossover in Marathi
- क्रॉसओव्हर, क्रॉसओवर, क्रॉसऑव्हर
crossover in Bengali
- ক্রসওভার, ক্রসঅভার
More languagesFewer languages
- crossover in Telugu
- క్రాస్ఓవర్, క్రాస్ఒవర్
- crossover in Malayalam
- ക്രോസ്ഓവർ, ക്രോസ്ഒവർ
- crossover in Kannada
- ಕ್ರಾಸ್ಒವರ್, ಕ್ರಾಸ್ಓವರ್
- crossover in Punjabi
- ਕਰਾਸਓਵਰ, ਕ੍ਰਾਸਓਵਰ
- crossover in Gujarati
- ક્રોસઓવર
- crossover in Odia
- କ୍ରସ୍ଓଭର, କ୍ରସଓଭର, କ୍ରସ୍ଓଭର୍
- crossover in Nepali
- क्रसओभर, क्रासोभर
Examples of crossover in a sentence
- A new crossover model will arrive next year and will be based on an existing skateboard.
- They've owned several Buicks over the years. Their newest one is a crossover model.
- There is crossover between the deflockers, and some, (not all) of the anti-data center activists.
Synonyms of crossover
Forms of crossover
| plural | crossovers |
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Origin of crossover
Deverbal from cross over.
Words formed from crossover
Phrases with crossover
Questions about crossover
- What does crossover mean?
- Crossover means a place where one thing crosses over another.
- What is crossover in Hindi?
- Crossover in Hindi is क्रॉसओवर. See Crossover meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is crossover?
- Crossover can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of crossover?
- The plural of crossover is crossovers.
Words near crossover in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crossover (page history and authors); Crossover (page history and authors); crossover (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crossover (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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