PLANE SECTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

plane section; section

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("plane section" is a kind of...):

area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)

Domain category:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plane section"):

cross section (a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis)