vertical section

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   a mechanical drawing showing the interior of an object as if made by a vertical plane passing through it

   Broadermechanical drawing

Questions about vertical section

What does vertical section mean?

vertical section means "a mechanical drawing showing the interior of an object as if made by a vertical plane passing through it".

Is vertical section a common word?

vertical 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.