plane section

English Thesaurus

1. (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid (noun.location)

hypernym	:	area, expanse, surface area,
definition	:	the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	cross section,
definition	:	a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis (noun.location)

domain category	:	geometry,
definition	:	the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces (noun.cognition)