The phrase "ability to cross reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capacity to compare and verify information from different sources.
Example: "Her ability to cross reference multiple studies allowed her to present a well-rounded argument in her research paper."
Alternatives: "capacity to verify" or "skill in comparing sources".
PackLink touts its ability to deliver users savings of up to 70% on the cost of each shipment, based on the ability to cross reference the service offerings of multiple shipping providers.
Doctor On Demand's new psychological counseling service offers much of the same, but with the ability to cross reference patients to physician care should they need to get prescription medication or have other physical needs requiring attention.
Simply put, it is the ability to cross reference wildly unrelated cultural references and, upon examining the results of some random juxtapositions, discover a synergy that can lead to a deeper understanding of a particular situation.
With the de-identified nature of the data entry there was no ability to cross reference the maternal deaths that occurred with the currently available maternal mortality reporting systems in Australia and New Zealand.
For privacy advocates, this is a long-fought victory; recognition that there is something uniquely intrusive about mass surveillance, and the ability to cross-reference and analyse multiple datasets for patterns and correlations, that cannot and should not be weighed by reference to traditional notions of targeted interception.
A specific advantage of i2b2 compared with traditional billing data is the ability to cross-reference several billing codes to generate a list of unique patients with multiple conditions of interest.
The ability to cross-reference expression levels of EGFRvIII and other RTK deletions against the clinical and detailed molecular data in TCGA provides a valuable resource to better understand the molecular context in which these mutations are found.
Although we follow a traditional F2 hybrid design for QTL mapping, we also genotyped individuals from natural populations to provide the ability to cross-reference loci of interest (i.e., selection signature quantitative trait loci, hereafter ssQTL) (Parsons and Albertson 2013; Albertson et al. 2014).
All the tweeps on the Twitters will be able to cross reference your mama drama or your music festival attendance.
