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- Section - n. - The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
- Section - n. - A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
- Section - n. - 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.
- 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.
- Section - n. - 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.
- 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.
- 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 /.
- Section - n. - A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
- 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.
- Sectional - a. - Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
- Sectional - a. - Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
- Sectionalism - n. - A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
- Sectionality - n. - The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
- Sectionalize - v. t. - To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
- Sectionally - adv. - In a sectional manner.
- Sectionize - v. t. - To form into sections.
- Ichnography - n. - A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.
- Branch - n. - Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
- Subcontrary - a. - Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
- Paragraph - n. - A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.
- Conoid - n. - A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.
- Bead - n. - A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
- Parting - n. - The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
- Stack - a. - A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
- 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.
- Ogee - n. - A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tenacity - n. - The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
- Bird's-beak - n. - A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
- Cylindrical - a. - Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.
- Ovaliform - a. - Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
- Drip - n. - That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
- Abdomen - n. - The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
- Wagon-headed - a. - Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling.
- Ungula - n. - A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.
- 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.
- Orbiculate - n. - That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.
- Cylinder - n. - A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
- Pantile - n. - A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (/).
- Profile - n. - A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.
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- H1235 בֶּקַע - 1235 בֶּקַע - בֶּקַע - - beqaʻ - beh'-kah - from בָּקַע; a section (half) of ashekel, i.e. a beka (a weight and a coin); bekah, half a shekel. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H1335 בֶּתֶר - 1335 בֶּתֶר - בֶּתֶר - - bether - beh'-ther - from בָּתַר; a section; part, piece. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4256 מַחֲלֹקֶת - 4256 מַחֲלֹקֶת - מַחֲלֹקֶת - - machălôqeth - makh-al-o'-keth - from חָלַק; a section (of Levites, people or soldiers); company, course, division, portion. See also סֶלַע הַמַּחְלְקוֹת. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H4255 מַחְלְקָה - 4255 מַחְלְקָה - מַחְלְקָה - - machlᵉqâh - makh-lek-aw' - (Aramaic) corresponding to מַחֲלֹקֶת; a section (of the Levites); course. - Noun Feminine - arc
- G3313 μέρος - 3313 μέρος - ΜΈΡΟΣ - - méros - mer'-os - from an obsolete but more primary form of (to get as a section or allotment); a division or share (literally or figuratively, in a wide application):--behalf, course, coast, craft, particular (+ -ly), part (+ -ly), piece, portion, respect, side, some sort(-what). - Noun Neuter - greek
- G3818 Πακατιανή - 3818 Πακατιανή - ΠΑΚΑΤΙΑΝΉ - - Pakatianḗ - pak-at-ee-an-ay' - feminine of an adjective of uncertain derivation; Pacatianian, a section of Phrygia:--Pacatiana. - - greek
- H6391 פְּלֻגָּה - 6391 פְּלֻגָּה - פְּלֻגָּה - - pᵉluggâh - pel-oog-gaw' - from פָּלַג; a section; division. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H6392 פְּלֻגָּה - 6392 פְּלֻגָּה - פְּלֻגָּה - - pᵉluggâh - pel-oog-gaw' - (Aramaic) corresponding to פְּלֻגָּה; {a section}; division. - Noun Feminine - arc
- H8180 שַׁעַר - 8180 שַׁעַר - שַׁעַר - - shaʻar - shah'-ar - from שָׁעַר; a measure (as a section); (hundred-) fold. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H8432 תָּוֶךְ - 8432 תָּוֶךְ - תָּוֶךְ - - tâvek - taw'-vek - from an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre; among(-st), [idiom] between, half, [idiom] (there-, where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), [idiom] out (of), [idiom] through, [idiom] with(-in). - Noun Masculine - heb