home/glossary/Crossover

Crossover

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience

polysemousWordset Dictionary

Senses

Wordset Dictionary

a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

Wordset Dictionary

a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party

Wordset Dictionary

the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
?unassignedlast reviewed

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
crossingcrossing overcrossover voter
plural
Crossovers
possessive
Crossover's
pluralpossessive
Crossovers'