A section of a solid is the plane figure cut from the solid by passing a plane through it (Kern and Bland 1948, p. 18).
Section
See also
Bundle Section, Conic Section, Cross Section, Cylindric Section, Graph Section, Multisection, Normal Section, Pencil Section, Spiric Section, Surface of Section, Tangent Bundle Section, Toric SectionExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Kern, W. F. and Bland, J. R. Solid Mensuration with Proofs, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1948.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Section." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Section.html