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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cross-check

1903 in research and accounting, from the verbal phrase, from cross (adv.) + check (v.). As a verb in hockey, from 1901. As a noun, 1968.

WordNet
cross-check

v. check out conflicting sources; crosscheck facts, for example

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Cross-check

In chess, a cross-check is a tactic in which a check is played in response to a check, especially when the original check is blocked by a piece that itself either delivers check or reveals a discovered check from another piece. Sometimes the term is extended to cover cases in which the king moves out of check and reveals a discovered check from another piece (this is also known as a royal check); it does not generally apply to cases where the original checking piece is captured, but it does apply to cases where the check is actually a checkmate (since there's no term "cross-checkmate").

The cross-check is an essential tactic in winning some endgames such as those with two queens versus one, or a queen and pawn versus a queen. In these cases, the defense usually tries for a perpetual check and sometimes the stronger side can stop it only by a cross-check.

Usage examples of "cross-check".

She also cross-checked each file against the list of donors and the Jane Doe list of recipients.

A quick cross-check with the Enterprise's records showed all the freighters had already been contacted and were supposedly en route back to Archaria III.

By cross-checking past city directories with past telephone books, I found one LaDestro and made a note of the address.

He concentrated on the instruments, on the attitude indicator on the VDI, on the needle of the rate-of-climb indicator, cross-checking the radar and pressure altimeters, all the while working to keep his wings level and steering centered.

Buli leaned over to show him a detail of the cross-checking program, and he caught a heady trace of wildflowers.

I cross-checked the friction rollers on my wrists, elbows, hips, knees, and toes.

An EEG study, cranial X rays, sonograms, pneumoventriculography, a lumbar puncture, an angiogram, and more, repeating the several procedures (though fortunately not the lumbar puncture) for cross-checked results.

One part of his brain piloted the ship, monitoring their approach through the asteroid belts and outer planets, while other parts studied the orbits of Bel-Major’s companions, logged four irregularly shaped moonlets circling Bel-Minor, correlated the wind-speed variations across Bel-Major’s latitudinal belts, and cross-checked the radiation levels reported by their sensors with the most recent models for stellar processes in the yellow-white stars.

One on each of the Swisher adults, another cross-checking for duplicate names.

But she could start by cross-checking Victor’s and Kim’s grades, those of her tutoring students, and then a few other students at random.