NOUN
- a sample meant to be representative of a whole population
- (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns
- a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis
How To Use cross section In A Sentence
- A view of the steam-chest side of the cylinder is given in Figure 323, and a horizontal cross section of the cylinder, the steam-chest and the valves, is shown in Figure 324. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught
- The width of a molecule at a given point along the contour length is the diameter of the horizontal axis of the elliptical cross section at that point.
- The contestants are drawn from a cross section of society.
- Hallucigenia" hits a good cross section of themes and set pieces central to my work -- hard bitten protagonists, dark cults, insanity, gratuitous rumpy pumpy, esoteric lore, super science, monsters, and cosmic horror all tangled up in pulp-noir webbing. INTERVIEW: Laird Barron
- The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat.
- This result is a particular problem for rating scales, which tend to be cross sectional, rather than longitudinal, in character.
- Child care is an issue that impacts on a broad cross section of working women.
- Just mix it all together and slice the fish across the fillet into cross sections. Times, Sunday Times
- Fourthly, the tube can be curved into the bronchia without deforming its tubular cross section.
- You can construct a model of this surface from a length of foam rubber with a square cross section.
