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Trisection :: Trisection (n.) The division of a thing into three parts, Specifically: (Geom.) the division of an angle into three equal parts..

Inscription :: Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle..

Section :: Section (n.) 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..

Quadrisection :: Quadrisection (n.) A subdivision into four parts.

Anglo-catholic :: Anglo-Catholic (a.) Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve..

Section :: Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase..

Myotomy :: Myotomy (n.) The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles..

Orthogonal :: Orthogonal (a.) Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another..

Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..

Suradanni :: Sura (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number..

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..

Prytanis :: Prytanis (n.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year..

Chiastolite :: Chiastolite (n.) A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.

Cylindrical :: Cylindrical (a.) Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder..

Anatomist :: Anatomist (n.) One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection..

Intersection :: Intersection (n.) The act, state, or place of intersecting..

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..

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..

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

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