ALL meanings of cross-section
cross-sec·tion
C c - countable noun cross-section If you refer to a cross-section of particular things or people, you mean a group of them that you think is typical or representative of all of them. 3
- countable noun cross-section A cross-section of an object is what you would see if you could cut straight through the middle of it. 3
- noun cross-section a plane surface formed by cutting across a solid, esp perpendicular to its longest axis 3
- noun cross-section a section cut off in this way 3
- noun cross-section the act of cutting anything in this way 3
- noun cross-section a random selection or sample, esp one regarded as representative 3
- noun cross-section a vertical section of a line of ground at right angles to a survey line 3
- noun cross-section a measure of the probability that a collision process will result in a particular reaction. It is expressed by the effective area that one participant presents as a target for the other 3
- noun cross-section a random selection or sample 3
- noun cross-section variety 3
- noun cross-section a section formed by cutting across a solid, esp perpendicular to its longest axis 3
- noun cross-section a cutting through something, esp. at a right angle 3
- noun cross-section a piece so cut off 3
- noun cross-section a drawing or photograph of a plane surface exposed by such a cutting 3
- noun cross-section a sample that has enough of each kind in it to show what the whole is like 3
- noun cross-section a measure of the probability that a nuclear reaction will take place, under specified conditions, between two particles or a particle and another target: usually expressed in terms of the effective area a single target presents to the incoming particle 3
- noun cross-section a vertical section of the ground surface taken at right angles to a survey line 3
- noun cross-section A cross-section of an object is what you would see if you slice through it. 3
- adjective cross-section Also, cross-sectional. of or relating to a cross section. 1
- verb with object cross-section to make or divide into a cross section. 1
- noun cross-section a section made by a plane cutting anything transversely, especially at right angles to the longest axis. 1
- noun cross-section a piece so cut off. 1
- noun cross-section a photograph, diagram, or other pictorial representation of such a section. 1
- noun cross-section the act of cutting anything across. 1
- noun cross-section a typical selection; a sample showing all characteristic parts, relationships, etc.: a cross section of American opinion. 1
- noun cross-section Surveying. a vertical section of the ground surface taken at right angles to a survey line. 1
- noun cross-section Also called nuclear cross section. Physics. a quantity expressing the effective area that a given nucleus presents as a target to a bombarding particle, giving a measure of the probability that the particle will induce a reaction. 1
- noun cross-section Alternative spelling of cross section. 0