crossband (plural crossbands)
A band going across something, especially
A layer of plywood with its grain at a right angle to the wood next to it.
(biology) A band or stripe perpendicular to the body of an animal.
A strip (of leather, metal, or some other material) going across a helmet or hat, or a helmet made with such a strip.
crossband (third-person singular simple present crossbands, present participle crossbanding, simple past and past participle crossbanded)
(transitive) To arrange the layers of plywood so as to make their grains cross at right angles.
crossband (not comparable)
(telecommunications) Receiving on one frequency band and transmitting on another.
(textiles, of a twist) Left-handed or "S shaped", with individual fibers oriented down and to the right when the thread, yarn, or rope is vertical.
Antonym: openband
Source: Wiktionary
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
