Definition of "cross-reference" [cross-reference]

• A reference from one part of a book, index, catalog, or file to another part containing related information. (noun)
• To provide with cross-references. (verb-transitive)

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• "For the members of the learned society of N, numbers are footnotes, a system of cross-reference."
• "I collect the journals of teenagers that have committed suicide and cross-reference them for similarities."
• "“I just like to cross-reference different recipes to see how things are going to behave,” I say."