crossing

crossing
/kraw"sing, kros"ing/, n.
1. the act of a person or thing that crosses.
2. a place where lines, streets, tracks, etc., cross each other.
3. a place at which a road, railroad track, river, etc., may be crossed.
4. hybridization; crossbreeding.
5. the act of opposing or thwarting; frustration; contradiction.
6. the intersection of nave and transept in a cruciform church.
7. Railroads. a track structure composed of four connected frogs, permitting two tracks to cross each other at grade with sufficient clearance for wheel flanges.
[1375-1425; late ME. See CROSS, -ING1]

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