Cross Sectional

of or pertaining to a cross section as a cross sectional slice...

cognizable 1 : capable of being known ;specif : capable of being recognized as a group because of a common characteristic (as race or gender) NOTE: Systematic exclusion of members of a cognizable group from a jury violates the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that jurors be selected from jury pools that represent a fair cross section of the community. 2 : capable of being judicially heard and determined [a claim] ...

jury

jury pl: ju·ries [Anglo-French juree, from feminine past participle of Old French jurer to swear, from Latin jurare, from jur- jus law] : a body of individuals sworn to give a decision on some matter submitted to them ;esp : a body of individuals selected and sworn to inquire into a question of fact and to give their verdict according to the evidence occasionally used with a pl. verb [the are always to decide whether the inference shall be drawn "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."] see also advisory jury, array, grand jury, inquest, jury nullification, petit jury, special jury, trial jury, venire Amendment VI to the Constitution in the back matter NOTE: The jury of American and English law most likely originated in early Anglo-Norman property proceedings, where a body of 12 knights or freemen who were from the area, and usually familiar with the parties, would take an oath and answer questions put to them by a judge in order to determine property rights. Jury verdicts began to be us...

Chiastolite

A variety of andalusite called also macle The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal...

cross section

a flat plane cutting through a three dimensional object usually at right angles to the longest axis of the object...

french fries

Strips of potatoes usually cut with a rectangular cross section cooked by immersing in hot fat or oil...

Macle

Chiastolite so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section See Chiastolite...

Ohm

The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampeacutere As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C G S system of electro magnetic units and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 144521 grams in mass of a constant cross sectional area and of the length of 1063 centimeters As thus defined it is called the international ohm...

rubber band

A closed loop of rubber usually having a thin rectangular cross section also called elastic band it varies in length from the circumference of a finger to several inches and is usually used to hold several objects together temporarily by the tension exerted when the band is stretched and fitted around the objects to be held as to hold a pack of cards together with a rubber band...

Ohm

Ohm, means a unit of electric resistance and is the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14. 4521 grammes in mass of an uniform cross-sectional area and of a length of 106.3 centimeteres. The aforesaid unit is represented by the resistance between the terminals of the instrument marked 'Government of India Ohm Standard Verified' to the passage of an electric current when the coil of wire, forming part of the aforesaid instrument and connected to the aforesaid terminals is in all parts of a temperature of 30'C. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2(1)(ag)]...

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