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Dissection :: Dissection (n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.

Macle :: Macle (n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.

Prytany :: Prytany (n.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the 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..

Bisection :: Bisection (n.) Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts..

Square :: Square (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets..

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

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..

Lancet :: Lancet (n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc..

Ellipse :: Ellipse (n.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus..

Section :: 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..

Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..

Capital :: Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book..

Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads..

Ichnography :: Ichnography (n.) A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans..

Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc..

Vivisection :: Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations..

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point..

Phytotomy :: Phytotomy (n.) The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.

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..

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