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What does cross-sectional mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cross-sectional? Here's what it means.

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  1. Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
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Since the sample isn't literally being sliced, we can see cross-sectional views of living cells, tissues, and organisms without harm.
The difficulty of evaluating this argument is finding enough cross-sectional data to make valid comparisons.
The authors estimate a cross-sectional wage equation for a set of developing countries for the 1973-1990 period.
The telephone survey used a cross-sectional sample of random-digit telephone listings to identify eligible subjects.
The cross-sectional area, or volume, of bone increases with age and training.
These values are reasonable considering that the data used in the analysis are cross-sectional.

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