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Commonly, the whole weight of aëroplane and load divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.

In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.

Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument. [R.] con.

coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.

e 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 preëmption laws.

Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

Divided into segments or joints; articulated.

The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.

apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.

Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. Him that was separate from his brethren. Gen. xlix. 26.

Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents. [R.] Fuller.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

ns; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part. Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday. -- Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist.

The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.