Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sectional"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sectional \Sec"tion*al\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger
body or territory; local.
All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is
hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition.
--Story.
2. Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into
sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sectional
adj 1: relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through
by an intersecting plane); "a sectional view";
"sectional drawings"
2: consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa";
"sectioned plates" [syn: {sectioned}]
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