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:

    “In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Personally I think we’re over-specialized. Why it’s getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen’s left ear.”
    —Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Prof. Clete Ferguson (John Agar)