Crosshatching

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In drawing and engraving, the art of hatching or shading by parallel intersecting lines.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of crosshatch.
  • noun. 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.
  • Word Usage
    "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")."
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