also cross section
( cross-sections)
1.
If you refer to a cross-section of particular things or people, you mean a group of them that you think is typical or representative of all of them.
I was surprised at the cross-section of people there...
It is good that there is a wide cross-section of sport on television.
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2.
A cross-section of an object is what you would see if you could cut straight through the middle of it.
...a cross-section of an airplane...
The hall is square in cross-section.
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