intercut

English

Etymology

From inter- + cut.

Verb

intercut (third-person singular simple present intercuts, present participle intercutting, simple past and past participle intercut)

  1. (transitive) To intersect.
  2. (cinematography) To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.

Noun

intercut (plural intercuts)

  1. (cinematography) An alternating sequence of this kind.
    • 2022, Brian Brems, The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 217:
      Smith's execution of the gangster who busted his car is the closest to some of the violence of Hill's early films, including a Peckinpahesque use of intercut slow-motion to track the gangster's harness-aided trip down the stairs to the dusty street.

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