crossover

[ UK /kɹˈɒsə‍ʊvɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɔˌsoʊvɝ/ ]

NOUN

a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience
a jazz-classical crossover album
a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party
the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis

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How To Use crossover In A Sentence

This has similar crossover appeal. Times, Sunday Times
Year zero for the modern R&B pop crossover. Times, Sunday Times
It's all the utility of a crossover with the ride and handling of a sports sedan.
It revealed why crossing-over should be suppressed between the centromere and the nucleolus organizer in organisms in which chiasmata terminalize, from the initial loaction of a crossover to the end of the arm of the chromosome. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
There is not much crossover between readers of modern and historical romances.
Phil's achievements in the field of instrumental and classical crossover has brought him a legion of fans and sustained critical acclaim.
The crossover design is unlikely to provide valid evidence because infantile colic is an unstable condition, and the effects of dicyclomine may continue even after a washout period.
When one impinges on the other there is an uneasy feeling - the kind which happens when unrelated TV shows crossover during the sweeps week on American television.
She has flirted with crossover material, but her popular appeal has in no way diminished the admiration of classical fans.
First, it generates crossovers between homologous chromosomes that mature into visible chiasmata.

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