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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Arbor Vitae :: Arbor vitae () The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section..
Vivisection :: Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations..
Anatomy :: Anatomy (n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection..
Sundown :: Sundog (n.) A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos..
Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..
Splandrel :: Splanchnotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads..
Burkism :: Burkism (n.) The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (n.) A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
Landau :: Landau (n.) A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage..
Aponeurotomy :: Aponeurotomy (n.) Dissection of aponeuroses.
Division :: Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections..
Profile :: Profile (n.) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like..
Plicidentine :: Plicidentine (n.) A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.
Split :: Split (n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses..
Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin..
Paraboloid :: Paraboloid (n.) The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.
Bisection :: Bisection (n.) Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts..
Inscription :: Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle..
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