Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. (alternative spelling of cross section English)
WordNet
adj. representing a plane made by cutting across something at right angles to its length; "cross-section views of the neck" [syn: cross-section(a), cross-sectional]
Usage examples of "cross-section".
Ship itself, a cross-section of it, with all the cubicles in place and the hydroponic gardens.
Diners lined the counter, and most of the red-leather booths were already filled with the typical Musso cross-section of businessmen, studio flacks, musicians, and bookies.
As now constituted it can be viewed in cross-section as a model for examining the relative depths of protohistoric and modern terror.
The nearest coal-black construct squatted on its wide rails, 60 feet long and nearly ten feet square in cross-section.
I have had some glimpses of working-class antisemitism through being three years in the Home Guard -- which gives a good cross-section of society -- in a district where there are a lot of Jews.
In cross-section it consisted of two concentric walls: the wet, slightly rough outer wall, so vibrantly green, and an inner wall midway between the outer wall and the core of the algae.
The stealth bomber itself would not show on radar right away, but the antiradar missiles would show once they were launchedthe missiles would have a smaller radar cross-section than the bombers that launched them Radio to all task force vessels, suspect stealth bomber attack, number unknown, " Captain Jhijun cried.
Most body hair is shed, since that'd just cause aquadynamic drag and on this cross-section, we see where an extra layer of insulating blubber develops, and the musculature is reshaped.
At the same time, I launch a spread of radar decoys, missiles which immediately deploy maneuverable ballute targets, each of which, though only a few meters across, displays radar cross-sections similar to my own.
The rectangular support shafts socketed into those crosscuts, for their cross-section was also greater than the diameter of the lower bores.
Unlike them, no walkways spanned it, and it was paved with the cross-sections of diamantine lithons quarried, perhaps, from the broken ring where they had spent the previous night.
They made a colorful cross-section, many of them wearing the old traditional national costumes that had lain in trunks for generationsembroidered dirndls, elaborate peasant blouses, Balkan tunics, sarongs, chesterfields, tam-o'-shanters, gray flannels, and regimental ties.
Every effort was made to modify the cross-section of the powerful impulse field jets to adapt them as military weapons and to augment the existing electronic remote control system by a semi-automatic switch arrangement for the armament designed to react to ultra-microwave steering signals.
The radar cross-section of the B-52 used to double with the bomb doors open-but not anymore.
It gave him a good cross-section of rural opinion in Chipping Cleghorn, but he didn’t think there was anything to help him in his task.