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cross⋅o⋅ver

[kraws-oh-ver, kros-]
–noun
1. a bridge or other structure for crossing over a river, highway, etc.
2. Genetics.
a. crossing over.
b. a genotype resulting from crossing over.
3. Popular Music.
a. the act of crossing over in style, usually with the intention of broadening the commercial appeal to a wider audience.
b. music that crosses over in style, occasionally sharing attributes with several musical styles and therefore often appealing to a broader audience.
4. Also called crossover voter. U.S. Politics. a member of one political party who votes for the candidate of another party in a primary.
5. crossover network.
6. Railroads. a track structure composed of two or more turnouts, permitting movement of cars from either of two parallel and adjacent tracks to the other.
7. Dance.
a. a step in which dancers exchange places.
b. a step involving partners in which the woman moves from one side of her partner to the other, crossing in front of him.
8. Bowling. a ball that strikes the side of the head pin opposite to the bowling hand of the bowler.
9. (in plumbing) a U-shaped pipe for bypassing another pipe.

Origin:
1785–95; n. use of v. phrase cross over

crossover network

–noun
an audio circuit device that sorts the impulses received and channels them into high- or low-frequency loudspeakers.
Also called crossover.
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cross·o·ver   (krôs'ō'vər, krŏs'-)   
n.  
  1. A place at which or the means by which a crossing is made.

  2. A short connecting track by which a train can be transferred from one line to another.

  3. Genetics

    1. Crossing over.

    2. A characteristic resulting from the exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes during meiosis.

    3. The adaptation of a musical style, as by blending elements of two or more styles or categories, to appeal to a wider audience.

    4. A recording designed to appeal to more than one segment or portion of the listening audience.

    5. One that appeals to a wide or diverse audience.

  4. A registered member of one political party who votes in the primary of the other party.

    1. The adaptation of a musical style, as by blending elements of two or more styles or categories, to appeal to a wider audience.

    2. A recording designed to appeal to more than one segment or portion of the listening audience.

    3. One that appeals to a wide or diverse audience.

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Financial Dictionary

Crossover

The point on a stock chart when a security and an indicator intersect. Crossovers are used by technical analysts to aid in forecasting the future movements in the price of a stock. In most technical analysis models, a crossover is a signal to either buy or sell.

Below we have a stock that falls below its 20-day moving average - a bearish sign.

Investopedia Commentary

An example of a crossover would be when the security line breaks through its 25-day moving average which may be a signal to buy the stock. Some of the indicators that use crossovers are "moving average" and "Bollinger bands".

Related Links

Introduction To Technical Analysis
The Basics of Bollinger Bands
Price Patterns - Part 1
Simple Moving Averages and Volume Rate-of-Change

See also: Bollinger Band, Chartist, Indicator, Moving Average, Moving Average Chart, Technical Analysis

Also spelled: Cross Over, Crossover

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1cross·over
Pronunciation: 'kro-"sO-v&r
Function: noun
1 : an instance or product of genetic crossing-over
2 : a crossover interchange in an experiment

Main Entry: 2crossover
Function: adjective
: involving or using interchange of the control group and the experimental group during the course of an experimentcrossover study>
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