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The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification. Contour feathers (Zoöl.), those feathers that form the general covering of a bird. -- Contour of ground (Surv.), the outline of the surface of ground with respect to its undulation, etc. -- Contour line (Topographical Suv.), the line in…

shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.

Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

Intersection, as of two paths or roads.

arallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.

Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder. Cylindrical lens, a lens having one, or more than one, cylindrical surface. -- Cylindric, or Cylindrical, surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as…

The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.

Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.

To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).

The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.

A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

of a set of parallel lines, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.

Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.

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

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

Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.