Cross Section

Cross section may refer to:

  • Cross section (geometry), the intersection of a 3-dimensional body with a plane
  • Cross-sectional views in architecture & engineering
  • Radar cross section, the unit of measure of how detectable an object is with a radar
  • Cross section (physics), the likelihood of an interaction event between two particles
    • Absorption cross section
    • Neutron cross section
    • Nuclear cross section
    • Photoionisation cross section
    • Scattering cross section
  • Section (fiber bundle), in differential and algebraic geometry and topology, a section of a fiber bundle or sheaf
  • Cross-sectional data, a type of one-dimensional data set in statistics and econometrics
  • Stratigraphy, the study of geological cross-sections
    • Core sample
    • Thin section
  • Cross section (biology), a sample such as that created by a microtome

Famous quotes containing the words cross and/or section:

    “But soft, behold! lo where it comes again!
    I’ll cross it though it blast me. Stay, illusion!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Socialite women meet socialite men and mate and breed socialite children so that we can fund small opera companies and ballet troupes because there is no government subsidy.”
    —Sugar Rautbord, U.S. socialite fund-raiser and self-described “trash” novelist. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 2, section 7, by Studs Terkel (1988)