sectional
- adjective
- /ˈsɛkʃənl/
- Specialized
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seccional
- Sectional imaging by CT or MRI should be performed for symptoms of sinusitis or for suspected spread beyond the nasal septum.
- cross-sectional
- sectional area
Make a guess as to the depth that'll give you the cross-sectional area of the river, and then multiply it times the speed of the flow.
- Make a guess as to the depth that'll give you the cross-sectional area of the river, and then multiply it times the speed of the flow.
Examples
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Well, if you took it, if you compared them slice by slice, then each slice has the same cross-sectional area, like the area of a penny here.
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That's the air density, that's the wind speed, that's the cross-sectional area of the plume.
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Here we have a bar with cross-sectional area A bar.
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Cross-sectional shape is clearly significant.
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I'm just going to bite this to give you a cross-sectional look at that.
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Here TA is this cross-sectional area now.
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These main roof beams, in turn, receive cross beams which are curved in the sectional profile of the bus roof.
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Now drag is proportional to cross-sectional area, so it scales with radius squared whereas weight scales with radius cubed.
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There's another way of doubling the rate, which is to use a bigger faucet, one that's twice as big, twice the cross-sectional area, OK?
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The architect presented a sectional view of the building to highlight its interior layout.
Synonyms
Showing the inside of something as if cut across
How Exposed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sectional comes from section, which means a 'cut' or 'slice' and comes from the Latin secare, 'to cut', like cutting an apple to see the inside. So a sectional view shows the inside of something as if it has been cut open.