Cross section

Cross section may refer to:

• Cross section (geometry), the intersection of a 3-dimensional body with a plane
• Cross-sectional views in architecture & engineering
• Radar cross section, the unit of measure of how detectable an object is with a radar
• Cross section (physics), the likelihood of an interaction event between two particles
  • Absorption cross section
  • Neutron cross-section
  • Nuclear cross section
  • Photoionisation cross section
  • Scattering cross section
• Section (fiber bundle), in differential and algebraic geometry and topology, a section of a fiber bundle or sheaf
• Cross-sectional data, a type of one-dimensional data set in statistics and econometrics
• Stratigraphy, the study of geological cross-sections
  • Core sample
  • Thin section
• Cross section (biology), a sample such as that created by a microtome