transverse section

American  

noun

1. cross section.

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Example Sentences

The Pier is frequently so disposed that its transverse section is greater than its longitudinal section, or, in other words, it is thicker from North to South than it is from East to West.

From The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated by Sharpe, Edmund

Forty guinea-pigs in which one or both eyes showed more or less morbid change were descended from three individuals in which one eye had become diseased in consequence of transverse section of the restiform body.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

Becki, Green. a, Restored thoracic limbs in transverse section of the animal; b, section across a posterior somite; c, section across one of the sub-terminal somites.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Mastering and defining this, he would then cut that point back and get a broad transverse section of his pine-stick, and peel and define that.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.

Longitudinal section, and 354, transverse section of 352.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa