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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..

Sciagraph :: Sciagraph (n.) An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section..

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..

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

Conical :: Conical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections..

Histotomy :: Histotomy (n.) The dissection of organic tissues.

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

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..

Polar :: Polar (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree th

Sectionally :: Sectionally (adv.) In a sectional manner.

Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..

Compartment :: Compartment (n.) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.

Section :: Section (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.

Zootomy :: Zootomy (n.) The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

Sectional :: Sectional (a.) Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.

Latus Rectum :: Latus rectum () The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter..

Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification..

Resection :: Resection (n.) The act of cutting or paring off.

Symphyses :: Symphyseotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.

Branch :: Branch (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

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