Definition of section

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Section (n.) 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..

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Vivisector :: Vivisector (n.) A vivisectionist.
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..
Ornithotomy :: Ornithotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of birds.
#NAME? :: -tre (n.) The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium..
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..
Chondrotomy :: Chondrotomy (n.) The dissection of cartilages.
Deck :: Deck (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks..
Isothermobath :: Isothermobath (n.) A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.
Intergrave :: Intergrave (v. t.) To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.
Cable :: Cable (n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding..
Plan :: Plan (a.) A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram..
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..
Antivivisectionist :: Antivivisectionist (n.) One opposed to vivisectio.
Accent :: Accent (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period..
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.
Cove :: Cove (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight..
Gastrohysterotomy :: Gastrohysterotomy (n.) Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.
Parting :: Parting (n.) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads..
Diclinic :: Diclinic (a.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.
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