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Definition of section

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Section (n.) 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..

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Wagon-headed :: Wagon-headed (a.) Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling..

Boss :: Boss (n.) A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature..

Entomotomy :: Entomotomy (n.) The science of the dissection of insects.

Profile :: Profile (n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc..

Township :: Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..

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

Sectionality :: Sectionality (n.) The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.

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

Hemisection :: Hemisection (n.) A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided..

Bird''s-beak :: Bird's-beak (n.) A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.

Gum :: Gum (n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log..

Angiotomy :: Angiotomy (n.) Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body.

Paraselene :: Paraselene (n.) A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.

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

Profiling :: Profiling (n.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points..

Dissecting :: Dissecting (a.) Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound..

Title :: Title (n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book..

Sentisection :: Sentisection (n.) Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.

Ellipsoid :: Ellipsoid (n.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a)..