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Section eight is American military slang for a discharge from the army under section eight of army regulations, on the gounds on insanity or the inability to adjust to army life.
A local coordinating base for fire-fighting and flood control activities. eg. Forward Section Base and After Section Base.
Bundles of marijuana soaked in hashish oil; marijuana buds bound on short sections of bamboo
, as in “He was too far off the track. Strictly section eight†Said about a man who becomes insanely violent
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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
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In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
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Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
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Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
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The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
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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.
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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.
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An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.
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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.
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An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.
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To form into sections.
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In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.
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A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
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To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
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Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
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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.
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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.
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In a sectional manner.
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Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
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A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
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