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Franking :: Franking (n.) A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter..

Bistort :: Bistort (n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent..

Vivisectional :: Vivisectional (a.) Of or pertaining to vivisection.

Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

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..

Dissection :: Dissection (n.) Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared..

Stack :: Stack (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved..

Conic :: Conic (n.) A conic section.

Segment :: Segment (n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf..

Metrotomy :: Metrotomy (n.) The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Caesarean section.

Exection :: Exection (n.) See Exsection.

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

Zone :: Zone (n.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Indicatrix :: Indicatrix (n.) A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic..

Insection :: Insection (n.) A cutting in; incisure; incision.

Trochilus :: Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia..

Flute :: Flute (v. i.) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n..

Directrix :: Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.

Regional :: Regional (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.

Shape :: Shape (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar..

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