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HORIZONTAL SECTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horizontal section mean?
• HORIZONTAL SECTION (noun)
The noun HORIZONTAL SECTION has 1 sense:
1. a mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally
Familiarity information: HORIZONTAL SECTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("horizontal section" is a kind of...):
mechanical drawing (scale drawing of a machine or architectural plan etc,)
Context examples
A gyrus or ridge in the parietal lobe surrounded by the ascending and horizontal sections of the intra-parietal sulcus, the horizontal section of the fissure of Sylvius and the edge of the posterior parietal lobe.
(Inferior Parietal Convolution, NCI Thesaurus)
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