Other forms: cross-references
A cross-reference is a note pointing the reader to another place in the work. Add a cross-reference.
It saves repeating something and costs the reader a journey, which is the trade. A cross-reference that points at a page number is the first thing to break when a book is reset.
1nouncross-referenceA note pointing the reader to another place in the work.
“Every cross-reference in the second edition was wrong by one page.”
cross-reference is a note.
Middle English
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English
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English, today
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From cross- + reference. cross comes from Middle English cross. From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (crucī). In this sense displaced native Middle English rode, from Old English rōd (“cross”); see rood. a doublet of crouch and crux. Compare Welsh croes, Irish crois. The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
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