Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cross-reference
1 sense of cross-reference
Sense 1
cross-reference, cross-index -- (a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work)
=> citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation -- (a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases")