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Cross-sectional   /krɔs-sˈɛkʃənəl/   Listen
Cross-sectional

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a cross section.
2.
Representing a plane made by cutting across something at right angles to its length.  Synonym: cross-section.





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"Cross-sectional" Quotes from Famous Books



... that case, stimulus will cause greater electrical disturbance at the more responsive point, say A, and this will be shown by the galvanometer as a current of response. To make B less responsive we may injure it by means of a cross-sectional cut, a burn, or the ...
— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose
... and the outer one, in. thick. These glasses are separated by a space of in. The upper conduit has four safety doors along the top, each of the inclined conduits has one safety door, and the walls and windows are provided with rubber gaskets or asbestos packing, to make them gas-tight. The cross-sectional area of the conduit ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • Herbert M. Wilson
... current intensity per unit of cross-sectional area of the conductor. The expression is more generally used for electrolytic conduction, where the current-density is referred to the mean facing areas of the electrodes, or else to the facing area of the ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone


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