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Cross section
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- 1 A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis.
- 2 (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns wordnet
- 3 A sample meant to be representative of a whole population.
- 4 a sample meant to be representative of a whole population wordnet
- 5 The probability that a particular nuclear reaction will take place.
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- 6 a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis wordnet
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