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

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

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.

Lath-shaped :: Lath-shaped (a.) Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections..

Heave :: Heave (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode..

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

Trace :: Trace (v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane..

Division :: Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.

Section :: 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..

Anthropotomical :: Anthropotomical (a.) Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies..

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

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

Parameter :: Parameter (n.) Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate..

Subject :: Subject (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection..

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..

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

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.

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