Meridional section

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A meridional section is a section along the axis of rotation of a solid of revolution .

A meridional section z. B. through the earth contains the two poles and the center of the earth and runs on the surface along two opposing meridians .

literature

  • Graf, Barner: Descriptive Geometry. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1961, ISBN 3-494-00488-9 , p. 192.
  • Small Encyclopedia Mathematics , Verlag Harri Deutsch, 1977, ISBN 3 87144 323 9 , p. 217.