Similar words: cross section, microdissection, cross connection, dissection, cross-examination, sports section, cross swords, section. Meaning: adj. representing a plane made by cutting across something at right angles to its length cross section. n. 1. a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis 2. a sample meant to be representative of a whole population 3. (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns.
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1 I was surprised at the cross-section of people there.
2 The roof beams were 50 centimetres square in cross-section.
3 The girder is square in cross-section.
4 The hall is square in cross-section.
5 The demonstrators seemed to be from a complete cross-section of society - male and female, old and young, rich and poor.
6 It is good that there is a wide cross-section of sport on television.
7 A cross-section of women were employed.
8 The arrow indicates the actin cable, seen in cross-section.
9 Subjects for this experiment represented a good cross-section of the American population.
10 Forbes showed consistent appeal across a wide cross-section of voters.
11 The league brings together a cross-section of Tucson, the young and old, the movers and shakers.
12 So the cross-section of the line is not so critical for the average sport kite.
13 Also, the posts were round in cross-section, whereas we always worked with square ones.
14 The steering group is working with a wide cross-section of the industry to specify Occupational Standards.
15 The argument just concluded studied legal reasoning in cross-section, the details of controversy case by case.
16 But when the cross-section is viewed at high magnification, it becomes clear that different plating methods have been used.
17 This survey data is cross-section data taken from a sample of households at a particular point in time.
18 In all, 1,678 people were interviewed from a cross-section of the taxpaying population including both the self-employed and employees.
19 Conventionalism fails here as it fails in cross-section, in explaining how particular hard cases like our samples are debated and decided.
20 The legends are consistent in widely separate places and give a good cross-section of the main themes.
21 When under full tension and stretched, it has a reduced cross-section and consequently a reduced breaking strain.
22 This increases the magnitude of the vorticity,[www.Sentencedict.com] but because of continuity also reduces the cross-section of the vortex tube.
23 In short, the whole project was carefully designed to produce a comprehensive visual cross-section of society in motion.
24 They went to a hall where they would meet a cross-section of men from the various paramilitary organisations.
25 We specialize to the case of a spherical surface whose cross-section is shown in Fig. 3.5.
26 The nematodes are commonly called roundworms, from their appearance in cross-section.
27 Though there was no sail, there were thirteen square feet of cross-section for the wind to catch.
28 He plots companies in the same industry on a cross-section basis to obtain a valuation curve like that shown in figure 6.3.
29 The first is cut with a knife along the grain, the second on the cross-section with a burin.
30 It is when we get into the high performance area that the ratio of cross-section to strength comes into play.
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