PLANE SECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plane section mean? 

• PLANE SECTION (noun)
  The noun PLANE SECTION has 1 sense:

1. (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

  Familiarity information: PLANE SECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANE SECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

plane section; section

Hypernyms ("plane section" is a kind of...):

area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)

Domain category:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plane section"):

cross section (a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis)