cross section
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A broader cross section of thousands of fund returns make up commonly used performance indexes published by Cambridge Associates and MSCI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
“Hopefully our country can get back to that. The Owens Valley, and Inyo County in particular, is a perfect cross section of America.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2024
“These days we’ve got a truly diverse cross section of South Africa coming to the event, all ages, races, and genders,” says rAge project director, Michael James.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024
Some models predict that dark matter has a certain mass or cross section, which is the probability of a specific event occurring due to the interaction of particles.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
Now a three-dimensional creature can exist, in Flatland, only partially; only a cross section can be seen, only the points of contact with the plane surface of Flatland.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing cross section
Geometry - High School
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Geometry (Base List)
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High School Geometry, List 2
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