transverse section

noun

1. cross section.

Example Sentences

Transverse section of the barrel part of CMS illustrating the successive layers of detection starting from the center where the collisions occur: the inner tracker, the crystal calorimeter, the hadron calorimeter, the superconducting coil, and the iron yoke instrumented with the four muon stations.

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In transverse section the cone is flattened, so that there is an anterior and a posterior surface and a superior and inferior border.

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In transverse section it is crescentic, since the septal wall bulges into its cavity.

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The septum ventriculorum is concave towards the left ventricle, so that a transverse section of that cavity is nearly circular.

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Climbing tall trees; a transverse section of the wood showing a cross.

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