Cross section

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In geometry and science, a cross section is the non-empty intersection of a solid body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional spaces. Cutting an object into slices creates many parallel cross sections.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cross section (geometry)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: The original uploader was Willy at Spanish Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.