- 1交叉參照；互見（書中「見某某頁／某某條」的註）
A cross-reference is a short note that sends you somewhere else in the same book (or set of notes) for more — another page, heading, or entry. Dictionaries are full of them (“see also…”). That pointing note is the tidy, older meaning. You can also use it as a verb: to put those notes in, or to check two lists against each other. In offices the verb has grown a little looser: people say they will cross-reference two files, meaning they will match the information, not only print “see page 9.” Both uses are real; the noun is still the note.
「cross-reference」當名詞時，指書中的一條短註，用來把讀者引到同一本書或同一組註解裡的另一個地方，例如另一頁、另一個標題或另一條詞條。字典裡常見的「see also…」就是這種註。這是比較傳統、正式的用法。
這個字也能當動詞，指在書裡加上這類指引，或把兩份清單互相對照。它的動詞用法常見的是「cross-reference + 受詞」，例如「cross-reference two files」。在辦公室裡，動詞的意思更寬，常指把兩份檔案的資料拿來比對，確認內容一致，不一定要寫出「見第九頁」。不過名詞的意思不變，還是那條註。
From the word’s history
cross- + reference.
由 cross- 加 reference 組成。
組成From cross- + reference. Cross- means across to another place; a reference is a pointer to information.
同家族的字
- referencea pointer to where information lives
- cross-referthe thinner verb: to point the reader across
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cross-referencenoun
- 1
A reference or direction in one place in a book or other source of information to information at another place in the same work.
- Hobson-Jobson (1903) contains 2467 dictionary entries, of which 31 are merely cross-references to other entries.
cross-referenceverb
- 1
To provide something with a cross-reference.
- This index, which is cross-referenced, will enable references on any subject to be found easily.
- 2
To compare two or more sources of information.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。