crossover in English dictionary

  • crossover

    Meanings and definitions of "crossover"

    • A place where one thing crosses over another.
    • The means by which the crossing is made.
    • (genetics) the result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
    • A blend of multiple styles of music, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
    • An automobile that is a mix of two kinds of automobiles, i.e. the Pontiac Torrent.
    • (rail transport) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
    • A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
    • adjective
      (computing, of an Ethernet cable)
      Configured with the wires that are connected to pins #1 (data transmission, positive polarity) and #2 (data transmission, negative polarity) on one side, connected to pins #3 (receive data, positive polarity) and #6 (receive data, negative polarity) on the other side, and with pins #3 (receive +) and #6 (receive -) on the one end wired to pins #1 (transmit +) and #2 (transmit -) on the other end.
    • noun
      A place where one thing crosses over another.
    • noun
      The means by which the crossing is made.
    • noun
      (genetics)
      The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
    • noun
      A blend of multiple styles of music, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
    • noun
      An automobile that is a mix of two kinds of automobiles, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.
    • noun
      (rail transport)
      A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
    • noun
      A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
    • noun
      ( sports) A crossover athlete or crossover swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, endurance sports.
    • noun
      (basketball)
      A crossover dribble.
    • noun
      a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
    • noun
      a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party
    • noun
      the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience; "a jazz-classical crossover album"
    • noun
      the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis

    Synonyms of "crossover" in English dictionary

    elector, borrowing, crosswalk are the top synonyms of "crossover" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of crossover

    • crossover ( plural  crossovers)
    • crossover (plural crossovers)
  • Crossover

    Meanings and definitions of "crossover"

    • One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID # 139.
  • CrossOver

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