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crosstalks

crosstalks is the plural of crosstalk.

crosstalks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 crosstalks

What is crosstalks the plural of?
Crosstalks is the plural of crosstalk.

Words near crosstalks in the dictionary

  1. crosstabulation
  2. crosstabulations
  3. crosstalk
  4. crosstalked
  5. crosstalking
  6. crosstalks
  7. crossteam
  8. crosstide
  9. crosstie
  10. crossties
  11. crosstolerance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosstalks (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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