Definition of "crosshatching" []

• Present participle of crosshatch. (verb)
• A method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect. (noun)
• A method of indicating terrain on a map by using the same technique. (noun)

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• "They are interlaced, weaving together physically to make a place where neighborhoods abut another country, where a single street can pass between two cities as it meanders from building to building (a phenomenon called "crosshatching")."
• "Instead of being neighbors, or even divided by a physical barrier, the two cities exist simultaneously in the same area, so that in frequent cases known as "crosshatching" the space of one city intersects and criss-crosses the other."
• "Two citys that exist in the same space, and overlap at areas of "crosshatching"."