Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cross-reference \cross-reference\ n. a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work.
Syn: cross-index.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A reference or direction in one place in a book or other source of information to information at another place in the same work vb. (context transitive English) To provide something with a cross-reference
WordNet
n. a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work [syn: cross-index]
Wikipedia
The term cross-reference can refer to either:
- An instance within a document which refers to related information elsewhere in the same document. In both printed and online dictionaries cross-references are important because they form a network structure of relations existing between different parts of data, dictionary-internal as well as dictionary external.
- In an index, a cross reference is often denoted by See also. For example, under the term Albert Einstein in the index of a book about Nobel Laureates, there may be the cross-reference See also: Einstein, Albert.
- In hypertext, cross-referencing is maintained to a document with either in-context (XRIC) or out-of-context (XROC) cross-referencing. These, are, similar to KWIC and KWOC.
- In programming, "cross-referencing" means the listing of every file name and line number where a given named identifier occurs within the program's source tree.
- In a relational database management system, a table can have an xref as prefix or suffix to indicate it is a cross-reference table that joins two or more tables together via primary key.
- A cross reference helps strengthen a document's structure and supports the whole document.
Usage examples of "cross-reference".
The two fell into flowchart, Holmesian deduction, tapping panels, toggling switches, volleying terms, injecting patches, and cross-referencing their way through the massive metal-bound manual with masochistic relish.
Virtually every cross-reference I tried to track down was a nonstarter, each book I needed seemed to be checked out on interlibrary loan to somewhere in Witwatersrand.
The numbers in the cross-references in the footnotes refer to items, not pages.
Although the deciphering of the Cross-referencing the word Tliuie with the Nazis brought Rossetta stone had greatly increased understanding of hi- a surprising result.
Another thing in her favor was the inherent difficulty ancients seemed to have in understanding the importance of technology, which to her meant commissioning a computer database, based on her own design, that could access and cross-reference real estate records, land titles, newspaper reports, census information, birth and death certificates, and maps, scanning them for known identities and pseudonyms of the so-called Ruling Class.
Crazy Ed Satterlee was accumulating, a huge cardboard box filled with cross-referenced names, dates, political organizations and documented admissions: Commies, pinkers and fellow travelers embracing Mother Russia and calling for the end of the U.
His flop at the Shangri-Lodge Motel now looked like Ellis Loew's living room: graphs, charts and cross-referenced hearsay, Mal's ode to Danny Upshaw, all of it proving one thing: that Commies were long on talk.
It listed every file in the drawer by name, alphabetized, dated, cross-referenced.
All these old sober Boston blue-collar men's irrevocable tattoos fading almost observably under the low-budget fluorescence of church basements and hospital auditoria Ewell watched and charted and cross-referenced them, moved.
Acting on a hunch, she cross-referenced these four to the addresses disclosed by the telephone directories.
Maybe it had gone to Bernsen, since they had cross-referenced each other on all the paperwork.
Bless their tidy little hearts, everything was cross-referenced between account numbers and names.
He didn't notice, however—at least not until he'd generated twenty odd pages of cross-referenced notes.
Anyway, I cross-referenced this list with the extras who own uniforms, and four names were flagged.
When we cross-referenced your list of extras and stage crew, his name got flagged.