WordNet
n. a mechanical drawing showing the interior of an object as if made by a vertical plane passing through it
Usage examples of "vertical section".
That way, air can't escape when they open the hatch, and the level in the vertical section of the tube will just fall or rise to equalize pressures.
Shakily he tucked his gun into his belt and began inching his way back to the vertical section of the fence.
McCoy counted as he and Donald walked down the linewere sitting lined up against the side of the road, their backs against a vertical section of rocky hill that had been excavated.
McCoy counted as he and Donald walked down the line-were sitting lined up against the side of the road, their backs against a vertical section of rocky hill that had been excavated.
I wish to be able on our return to the upper regions to make a map of our journey, a kind of vertical section of the globe, which will be, as it were, the profile of the expedition.
They descended a vertical section of cliff, picking hand- and footholds with care.
Gisela highlighted a vertical section of their world line, where they'd hovered on the three-M shell.
They would then lower it down the vertical section of the pipe to the first right-angled bend.
From there the mouse could scurry along the horizontal part of the pipe to the next vertical section and so on, down to the bottom of the pipe where it could be recaptured.
Through the gap between the door and the frame, he could see a vertical section of his mother.
For instance, the drive room didn't occupy its full vertical section of the ship, but was itself surrounded by cargo holds.