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- English Word Sectility Definition The state or quality of being sectile.
- English Word Section Definition The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
- English Word Section Definition A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
- English Word Section Definition A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
- English Word Section Definition 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.
- English Word Section Definition One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
- English Word Section Definition 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.
- English Word Section Definition A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
- English Word Section Definition A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
- English Word Section Definition 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.
- English Word Sectional Definition Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
- English Word Sectional Definition Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
- English Word Sectionalism Definition A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
- English Word Sectionality Definition The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
- English Word Sectionalize Definition To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
- English Word Sectionally Definition In a sectional manner.
- English Word Sectionize Definition To form into sections.
- English Word Sectism Definition Devotion to a sect.
- English Word Sectist Definition One devoted to a sect; a soetary.
- English Word Sectiuncle Definition A little or petty sect.