Definition of section

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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..

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Cheek :: Cheek (n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask..
Sectionalism :: Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national..
Plicidentine :: Plicidentine (n.) A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.
Arteriotomy :: Arteriotomy (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries.
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..
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..
Orthography :: Orthography (n.) A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section..
Diameter :: Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve..
Callisection :: Callisection (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
Lierne Rib :: Lierne rib () In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
Hysterotomy :: Hysterotomy (n.) The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.
Trochilus :: Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia..
Hemisection :: Hemisection (n.) A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided..
Sheepsplit :: Sheepsplit (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
Intersectional :: Intersectional (a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections..
Arbor Vitae :: Arbor vitae () The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section..
Burkism :: Burkism (n.) The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
Angiotomy :: Angiotomy (n.) Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body.
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..
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