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For example if you had a cake (a wide, flat cylinder) and sliced it parallel to the table, the cross section would be a circle. If you took that same shape and sliced it up and down, then looked at it from the side, it would look like a rectangle. * 3 years ago * Report Abuse Asker's Rating: 5 out of 5 Asker's Comment: The first, clear answer here. * Action Bar: * 0 stars - mark this as Interesting! * Email * Comment (0) * Save + Save to Yahoo! Bookmarks + Add to My Yahoo! + Add to Del.icio.us + RSS There are currently no comments for this question. * You must be logged into Answers to add comments. Sign in or Register. Other Answers (3) Show: [All Answers............] Go * D.W. by D.W. A Top Contributor is someone who is knowledgeable in a particular category. Member since: April 20, 2007 Total points: 85,781 (Level 7) Badge Image: A Top Contributor is someone who is knowledgeable in a particular category. + Add Contact + Block It's the intersecting points, plural. The intersection of a plane and a solid. In statistics, a cross-section is a data sample that is typical of the entire population. + 3 years ago + Report Abuse * tiggs1515 by tiggs151... Member since: December 01, 2006 Total points: 1,357 (Level 3) + Add Contact + Block If you had a shpere, you cut it right down the middle and get a flat surface. That would be a cross section. + 3 years ago + Report Abuse * Shawn7400 by Shawn740... Member since: December 29, 2006 Total points: 599 (Level 2) + Add Contact + Block It is the intersection of an n-dimentional body and an (n+1)-dimentional body. For example, the intersection of a plane (2-dimentional) and a cube(2+1, or 3-dimentional), the intersection of a line line and a plane, or the intersection of a sphere and a hypercube. The intersection doesn't have to be "right down the middle"; they may intersect anywhere. There are infinitely many parallel crossections of any body. It is used as a way to show the composition of something when it would normally be obscured by itself. + 3 years ago + Report Abuse Discover Questions in Mathematics * What are the next 3 terms in the sequence? * What exactly is the solution? * 7/xv^2+1/x^2v .........? * How to rearrange this formula? Ready to Participate? Get Started! Related Questions * What is a section 1231 loss? its operation? * How find volume using cross sections? * Help with a Calculus problem – Isosceles Triangle Cross… * Calculus, Finding the volume of a solid if parrallel… * What is a triangular cross section? Categories * All Categories + Science & Mathematics o Agriculture o Alternative o Astronomy & Space o Biology o Botany o Chemistry o Earth Sciences & Geology o Engineering o Geography o Mathematics o Medicine o Other - Science o Physics o Weather o Zoology Who found this interesting? Be the first person to mark this question as interesting! 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