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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun has 3 senses
- cross section(n = noun.location) - a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis;
- cross section(n = noun.cognition) - a sample meant to be representative of a whole population;
- cross section(n = noun.attribute) - (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns;
Derived form adjective cross-sectional2
Derived form adjective cross-sectional1
CIDE DICTIONARY
, n.
- a flat plane cutting through a three-dimensional object, usually at right angles to the longest axis of the object. [PJC]
- any visual representation of a cross section{1}, showing the internal structure of the object in the plane of the cross section;
as, the technician prepared a series of MRI .cross sections of the skull - a thin slice of an object made by cutting it transversely;
as, to view a . [PJC]cross section of a bacterium with an electron microscope after staining the DNA;cross sections were prepared with a microtome - a representative sample of a complex group;
as, the town contained a . [PJC]cross section of the American population - a measure of the probability that a nucleus will interact in a specified way with a bombarding particle, expressed as the effective area that the nucleus presents to the particle; -- called also
nuclear cross section . [PJC]
, v. t.
to create one or a series of cross sections{3} by cutting (an object) into thin slices. [PJC]