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| sectionality
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sectional has 1 sense
- sectional(n = noun.artifact) Array - a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together; Array is a kind of article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture
Adjective sectional has 3 senses
- sectional(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane); "a sectional view"; "sectional drawings"
- sectional(s = adj.all) sectioned - consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa"; "sectioned plates"
- sectional(s = adj.all) Array - related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people; "sectional tensions arose over slavery"
CIDE DICTIONARY
sectional, a.
- Of or pertaining to a section or distinct part of larger body or territory; local. [1913 Webster]"All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition." [1913 Webster]
- Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sectional, adj.
1 a relating to a section, esp. of a community. b partisan.
2 made in sections.
3 local rather than general.
1 a relating to a section, esp. of a community. b partisan.
2 made in sections.
3 local rather than general.
Derivative
sectionalism n. sectionalist n. & adj. sectionalize v.tr. (also -ise). sectionally adv.
THESAURUS
sectional
areal, denominational, factional, fractional, fragmentary, geographical, incomplete, interested, locational, part, partial, partisan, party, regional, sectarian, sectary, segmental, segmentary, territorial, topographic, zonalROGET THESAURUS
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Part
N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.
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