cross reference

¹

noun

1. a reference from one part of a book, index, or the like, to related material, as a word or illustration, in another part.

cross-reference

²

[ kraws-ref-er-uhns, -ref-ruhns, kros- ]

verb (used with or without object)

, cross-ref·er·enced, cross-ref·er·enc·ing.

1. to provide with cross references:

   The new encyclopedia is completely cross-referenced.

2. cross-refer.

cross-reference

noun

1. a reference within a text to another part of the text

verb

1. to cross-refer

Word History and Origins

Origin of cross reference¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Origin of cross reference²

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

JXN Water, the corporation Henifin formed to manage water infrastructure projects, will cross reference the Entergy customer records with city records to see what homes might be using water without a utility account.

From Seattle Times

We can then cross reference this with satellite and Google Street View imagery.

From BBC

But Mike Yestramski, a social worker at Western State Hospital and the president of the Washington Federation of State Employees, said that requesters can cross reference information they can get about public workers with other publicly available information.

From Seattle Times

One user, identifying only as an “Anarcho-Capitalist,” quickly concocted a scheme to cross reference the alleles identified in the Nature Genetics study with a publicly accessible catalog of genomic data called the 1,000 Genomes Project, which is sampled from 26 ethnic groups from around the world.

From Scientific American

Woodward told The Spokesman-Review that her office has requested a list of names of those staying at Camp Hope in order to cross reference them with those staying at the Trent shelter, but has been denied them.

From Seattle Times