cross section

• ⇰ अनुप्रस्थ काट
• ⇰ व्यापक प्रतिनिधित्व
• ⇰ तिरछी काट

• ⇰ a flat plane cutting through a three-dimensional object, usually at right angles to the longest axis of the object.
• ⇰ any visual representation of a cross section{1}>, showing the internal structure of the object in the plane of the cross section; <as>as, the technician prepared a series of MRI <ex>cross sections</ex> of the skull</as>.
• ⇰ a thin slice of an object made by cutting it transversely; <as>as, to view a <ex>cross section</ex> of a bacterium with an electron microscope after staining the DNA; <ex>cross sections</ex> were prepared with a microtome</as>.
• ⇰ a representative sample of a complex group; <as>as, the town contained a <ex>cross section</ex> of the American population</as>.
• ⇰ a measure of the probability that a nucleus will interact in a specified way with a bombarding particle, expressed as the effective area that the nucleus presents to the particle; -- called also nuclear cross section>.

• ⇰ to create one or a series of cross sections{3}> by cutting (an object) into thin slices.