Definition of section

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of section is as below...

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..

Lern More About Section

Exection :: Exection (n.) See Exsection.
Bisection :: Bisection (n.) Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts..
Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..
Ornithotomy :: Ornithotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of birds.
Ichthyoomy :: Ichthyoomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of fishes.
Decussation :: Decussation (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc..
Compartment :: Compartment (n.) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
Anthropotomy :: Anthropotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
Sectional :: Sectional (a.) Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
Subcontrary :: Subcontrary (a.) Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel..
Class :: Class (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
Polar :: Polar (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree th
Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
Coupon :: Coupon (n.) A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like..
Callisection :: Callisection (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
Suradanni :: Sura (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number..
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection..
Cove :: Cove (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight..
Gum :: Gum (n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log..
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us