Let 
be a regular surface and 
a unit tangent vector
to 
, and let 
be the plane determined
by 
and the normal to the surface 
. Then the normal section of 
is defined as the intersection of 
and 
.
Normal Section
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References
Gray, A. Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 365, 1997.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Normal Section." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalSection.html