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Thesaurus: cross section
a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis
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- n. a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis
- n. a sample meant to be representative of a whole population
- n. (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns