horizontal section

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   a mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally

   Broadermechanical drawing

Questions about horizontal section

What does horizontal section mean?

horizontal section means "a mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally".

Is horizontal section a common word?

horizontal section is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.