Cross-section Synonyms

A measure of the probability that a nuclear reaction will take place, under specified conditions, between two particles or a particle and another target: usually expressed in terms of the effective area a single target presents to the incoming particle
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. random-sample
  2. sample
  3. sampling
  4. transversion
  5. transection
Representing a plane made by cutting across something at right angles to its length
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cross-sectional

Words Related to Cross-section

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Cross-section Sentence Examples

  • A third reflecting plate is sometimes employed, the cross-section of the three forming an equilateral triangle.

  • Pieces of very small cross section, like wire, are more conveniently made by drawing through a die than by rolling, essentially because a single draft reduces the cross section of a wire much more than a single pass between rolls can.

  • From the smallest cross-section of a DNA molecule to the proportion between your height and the distance between your navel and your foot, the Golden Ratio in humans may be the design template of the body.

  • These are common in Europe, and are sometimes employed in the United States and elsewhere in mines where the output is large and the shafts deep and of small cross section.

  • In the haplostelic ferns the leaf-trace appears as a single strand with a tendency to assume the shape of a horseshoe on cross-section, and this type is also found in the more primitive solenostelic types.

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