Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wire placed transversely to another; specifically, same as
crosshair .
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Examples
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It's still a tendency I have, to cross-wire, to combine, to cut-up-and-fold-in, smashing multiple stories into bits and splicing the smithereens back together as a single multi-threaded narrative.
Why Do I Infernokrush? Hal Duncan 2005
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A cross-wire dropping down out of place, and leaning upon the feed-wire has drawn the power into itself and off somewhere else.
Quiet Talks on Power S.D. Gordon
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It could not be detected without a cross-wire in the telescope, and would only appear as a slight displacement from the centre of the field, supposing the telescope accurately pointed to the true direction.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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If a telescope planted at New York could be directed to a house in England, and be then turned so as to set its cross-wire first on one end of an ordinary room and then on the other end of the same room, it would have turned through half a second, the angle of greatest stellar parallax.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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Using an electro-magnet at D, and continuing contact, a current was then indicated by the deflection, proceeding from P to N, in the direction of the arrow; the cross-wire serving to carry one part of the electricity excited by the electromotor, and that part of the arrangement marked A B D, the other and far greater part, as indicated by the arrows.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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The _spark_ of the cross-wire current could be produced at _x_ in the following manner: D was made an electro-magnet; the metallic extremities at
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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_Chemical decomposition_ was next effected by the cross-wire current, an electro-magnet being used at D, and a decomposing apparatus, with solution of iodide of potassium in paper (1079.), employed at _x_.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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This collection presents recent Australian audiovisuals that fuse, splice, generate and cross-wire sound and image into startling new wholes.
WN.com - Articles related to 40 ways to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary 2010
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This collection presents recent Australian audiovisuals that fuse, splice, generate and cross-wire sound and image into startling new wholes.
WN.com - Articles related to 40 ways to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary 2010
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This collection presents recent Australian audiovisuals that fuse, splice, generate and cross-wire sound and image into startling new wholes.
WN.com - Articles related to 40 ways to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary 2010
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