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- English Word Sectility Definition The state or quality of being sectile.
- English Word Section Definition The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
- English Word Section Definition A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
- English Word Section Definition A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
- English Word Section Definition A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
- English Word Section Definition One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
- English Word Section Definition The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
- English Word Section Definition A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
- English Word Section Definition A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
- English Word Section Definition 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.
- English Word Sectional Definition Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
- English Word Sectional Definition Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
- English Word Sectionalism Definition A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
- English Word Sectionality Definition The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
- English Word Sectionalize Definition To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
- English Word Sectionally Definition In a sectional manner.
- English Word Sectionize Definition To form into sections.
- English Word Sectism Definition Devotion to a sect.
- English Word Sectist Definition One devoted to a sect; a soetary.
- English Word Sectiuncle Definition A little or petty sect.
- English Word Sector Definition A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
- English Word Sector Definition A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
- English Word Sector Definition An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
- English Word Sectoral Definition Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.
- English Word Sectorial Definition Adapted for cutting.
- English Word Sectorial Definition A sectorial, or carnassial, tooth.
- English Word Secular Definition Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
- English Word Secular Definition Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
- English Word Secular Definition Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
- English Word Secular Definition Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.