plane section

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   (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

   Synonymssection

   Broaderarea

   Narrowercross section

   geometry

Questions about plane section

What does plane section mean?

plane section means "(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid".

What is another word for plane section?

Close synonyms include section. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plane section a common word?

plane 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.