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What does cross-sectional mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cross-sectional? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
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The data for this analysis come from a random sample, cross-sectional survey of Iowa soybean fields.
The cross-sectional area, or volume, of bone increases with age and training.
I concluded that the building's smallest cross-sectional area would have to be located just upwind of the living area and not at the exit opening.
The text includes a cross-sectional image of a female fetus at 65 days of gestation.
The difficulty of evaluating this argument is finding enough cross-sectional data to make valid comparisons.
Since the sample isn't literally being sliced, we can see cross-sectional views of living cells, tissues, and organisms without harm.

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