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- English Word Sector Definition A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
- English Word Sector Definition A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
- English Word Sector Definition An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
- English Word Sectoral Definition Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.
- English Word Sectorial Definition Adapted for cutting.
- English Word Sectorial Definition A sectorial, or carnassial, tooth.
- English Word Secular Definition Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
- English Word Secular Definition Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
- English Word Secular Definition Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
- English Word Secular Definition Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
- English Word Secular Definition Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
- English Word Secular Definition A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
- English Word Secular Definition A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
- English Word Secular Definition A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
- English Word Secularism Definition The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.
- English Word Secularism Definition The tenets or principles of the secularists.
- English Word Secularist Definition One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.
- English Word Secularity Definition Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.
- English Word Secularization Definition The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
- English Word Secularize Definition To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.