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Plane section   /pleɪn sˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Plane section

noun
1.
(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid.  Synonym: section.






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"Plane section" Quotes from Famous Books



... the imagination is a good preparation for the next demand upon it. Conceive a dichotomous tree—one that always divides into two branches—to pass through a plane. We should have, as a plane section, a circle of changing size, which would elongate and divide into two circles, each of which would do the same. This reminds us of the segmentation of cell life observed under the microscope, as though a four-dimensional figure were ...
— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon



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