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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.

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

One who dissects; an anatomist.

One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.

A vivisectionist.

A dissector.

other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies. -- Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc. -- Artificial numbers, loga…

A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.

, the projection of the circles of the sphere upon a plane. See Projection. -- Spherical sector. See under Sector. -- Spherical segment, the segment of a sphere. See under Segment. -- Spherical triangle,re on the surface of a sphere, bounded by the arcs of three great circles which intersect each other. -- Spherica…

s, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also villan, and villein.] If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.

One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

y reached the zenith. Macaulay. Zenith distance. (Astron.) See under Distance. -- Zenith sector. (Astron.) See Sector, 3. -- Zenith telescope (Geodesy), a telescope specially designed for determining the latitude by means of any two stars which pass the meridian about the same time, and at nearly equal distances from…