Both. It usually means sotfware that runs in a virtual machine or software that is compiled for each platform separately.
Cross-platform refers to the ability of a program to run on multiple different platforms. Cross-platform code frequently uses various toolkits/languages to achieve this (Qt, Flash, etc.).
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