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A little or petty sect. [R.] "Some new sect or sectiuncle." J. Martineau.

f each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.

Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.

A sectorial, or carnassial, tooth.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

To cut or divide into two parts.

Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.

One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

Following as a matter of course. Blount.

Following by consequence; consequent; deducible. [R.] "Consectary impieties." Sir T. Browne.

s of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely. This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample. Atterbury.

Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.

Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley.

Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.

The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

One who dissects; an anatomist.

A cutting out or away. E. Darwin.