cross-section
横断面,横截面,截面,截面图
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- : a section made by a plane cutting anything transversely, especially at right angles to the longest axis.
- : a piece so cut off.
- : a photograph, diagram, or other pictorial representation of such a section.
- : the act of cutting anything across.
- : a typical selection; a sample showing all characteristic parts, relationships, etc.: a cross section of American opinion.
- : Surveying. a vertical section of the ground surface taken at right angles to a survey line.
- : Also called nuclear cross section. Physics. a quantity expressing the effective area that a given nucleus presents as a target to a bombarding particle, giving a measure of the probability that the particle will induce a reaction.
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A sample sliced from that Mars cake would give a cross section of millions of years of lake deposits, providing scientists with a window into how the lake changed over time—and whether life ever emerged there.
The number of messages I received from such a vast cross section of people confirms that.
The fresher the powder, the more vibrant the green-and-purple cross section of cake you’ll get.
It’s going to harm a wide cross section of voters, but it’s going to disproportionately impact voters of color.
My hair did not show up, leaving just the skull and outline of the face with a cross section of the tissues inside.
The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?
The reason: activist government and unionized government often work at cross purposes.
What do you get when you cross an oil company with gay rights?
A few weeks after returning from England, I was trolling the dairy section and came across the Cotswold Double Gloucester.
In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.
He made no further remark as they descended the darker section of the stair, and she could think of nothing to say to him.
At Jaques Cartier they had but one batteau to cross the army over with, and were fired upon during the whole time by two frigates.