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Capable of being cut
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sectile
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Word definitions for sectile in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sectile \Sec"tile\, a. [L. sectilis, fr. secare, sectum, to cut: cf. F. sectile. See Section .] Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being cut. 2 # (context mineralogy English) Capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
Usage examples of sectile.
Long cranes dipped down with in sectile grace from upper reaches, plucking, searching, replacing.
The second device was decidedly in sectile in appearance, with six jointed legs, a small head equipped with long fronds of antennae, and a squat, ovoid, bulging body that would, when polished, gleam with gorgeous iridescence.
There was expression that communicated itself across psychic space as an in sectile buzzing and whirring.
And the great computer, with its in sectile sense of precision, would suicide the program only when that precise name and precise address were fed into its memory.
Mary Alice stood at my elbow, listening to the in sectile low fidelity of my tin speaker and, with her thumb, trying to relieve the undue stricture of the nether end of her yellow garment.
Now Brad could clearly see that the in sectile limbs of the body were severely attenuated human arms and legs, that the sunken body cavity and strangely shriveled genitals were the products of acute emaciation, that the fright-mask face was the result of dehydration without decay.