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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Wagon-headed :: Wagon-headed (a.) Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling..
Laparotomy :: Laparotomy (n.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads..
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..
Parameter :: Parameter (n.) Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate..
Three-square :: Three-square (a.) Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
Dissection :: Dissection (n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I..
Diclinic :: Diclinic (a.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.
Demonstration :: Demonstration (n.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.
Intergrave :: Intergrave (v. t.) To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.
Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification..
Splenotomy :: Splenotomy (n.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen.
Andranatomy :: Andranatomy (n.) The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy..
Demonstrate :: Demonstrate (v. t.) To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..
Bloodletting :: Bloodletting (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection..
Branch :: Branch (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
Parabola :: Parabola (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus..
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..
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..
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