Definition of section

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Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile..

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Bead :: Bead (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments..
Entomotomy :: Entomotomy (n.) The science of the dissection of insects.
Vent :: Vent (n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads..
Resurrectionist :: Resurrectionist (n.) One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection..
Osteotomy :: Osteotomy (n.) The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.
Centumvir :: Centumvir (n.) One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections..
Isothermobathic :: Isothermobathic (a.) Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean..
Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..
Inscription :: Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle..
Split :: Split (n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses..
Staurotide :: Stauroscope (n.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
Sectionalism :: Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national..
Polarity :: Polarity (n.) A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n..
Dissecting :: Dissecting (a.) Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound..
Laparotomy :: Laparotomy (n.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section..
Directrix :: Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
Parting :: Parting (n.) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
Quadrisection :: Quadrisection (n.) A subdivision into four parts.
Conics :: Conics (n.) Conic sections.
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