CROSS-SECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cross-section mean? 

• CROSS-SECTION (adjective)
  The adjective CROSS-SECTION has 1 sense:

1. representing a plane made by cutting across something at right angles to its length

  Familiarity information: CROSS-SECTION used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSS-SECTION (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Representing a plane made by cutting across something at right angles to its length

Synonyms:

cross-section; cross-sectional

Context example:

cross-section views of the neck

Similar:

crosswise (lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction)

 Context examples 

A microtubule that has a C-shape in cross-section.

(C-Microtubule, NCI Thesaurus)

This study provides the first cross-section measurements for a neutrino energy range that is up to 1,000 times higher than previous measurements at particle accelerators.

(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)

After taking rock samples and digging into the library of existing data, Johnson created a cross-section grid of the oxygen isotope and temperature values found in the rock.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

Radiation alters the chemical structure of the gel, and the changes appear when scientists view a cross-section of the phantom on the computer screen.

(Gel Dosimetry, NCI Thesaurus)

One gauss represents a magnetic flux of one maxwell per square centimetre of cross-section perpendicular to the field.

(Gauss, NCI Thesaurus)

Representing more than 68,000 years of climate history, data extracted from the core—a cylinder of ice that represents a cross-section of the ice sheet—is helping scientists understand past, rapid climate fluctuations between warm and cool periods that are known as Dansgaard-Oeschger events.

(Antarctic ice core reveals how sudden climate changes in North Atlantic moved south, NSF)