1Relating to a section or subdivision of a larger whole.

1. 1.1 Relating to a section or group within a community.
   the chairman of the commission looked on sectional interests as a danger to the common good

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   • We come from Lismore's urban, village, and rural areas and do not represent any party, business or sectional interest.
   • Recent large demonstrations featured coalitions, such as that formed by farmers, hauliers and hunt supporters, that were largely sectional and self-interested in their nature.
   • Many different languages were spoken, and a multitude of sectional hatreds were combined in troubled cacophony.
   • This aspect would be as bad if the sectional opinion the bishops happened to hold was in perfect agreement with mine.
   • Some eight years down the road, it is important that vocal sectional interests do not blind the community to reforms that are in the public interest.
   • That does not mean that slavery was irrelevant or insignificant, but without an understanding of the sectional power relationships at stake we can be led to overstate its importance.
   • What I resent is that they do want to impose their views on the rest of us, using the government (our common government) for this sectional purpose.
   • And there were also economic issues that fueled this sectional animosity to an even greater degree.
   • The election campaign has highlighted the fracturing of Fijian politics and government institutions along racial, regional and sectional lines.
   • They shelter the businesses due to sectional protectionism, which in turn has slowed down our implementations.
   • We on the left must learn to make sectional alliances and commemorate those areas of agreement we have with people like John Paul II.
   • The core of work in higher education cannot be sacrificed for individual or sectional interests.
   • Here in Korea, bias can be a big factor since there is sectional bias.
   • Groups representing sectional business interests presently lead the ongoing fuel protests.
   • If the Green leadership were not so inward-looking, so sectional and party-minded, a coalition could have made a much more dramatic impact on the elections.
   • I have been thinking a lot about sectional interests and the way they mesh and clash within our society.
   • But in the parliament in August, the only opposition came from parties that represent sectional and regional interests.
   • Marx, writing as a journalist observing the American civil war, analyses it flatly as a sectional conflict between Northern industrialism and Southern slave oligarchy.
   • The left is always warning us about the cynical vested interests of the military industrial complex allegedly manipulating public policy for their sectional gain.
   • Since Southerners stopped fighting the Civil War and joined their conservative brethren in the GOP, sectional differences have become meaningless in America.

   Synonyms

   individual, group, separate, divided, special, personal, private, exclusive, local, provincial, regional, national, sectarian, factional, party, party political, class, racial, partisan, partial, selfish
2. 1.2 Relating to a view of the structure of an object in section.
   sectional drawings

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   • A follow-up CT scan of the chest 6 months later included sectional views of the upper abdomen and showed an abnormality in the pancreas.
   • This illustration attempts to show a sectional front view of the hip injury in an advanced state of osteroarthritis.
   • The sectional drawing speaks for itself: floating over the harbour, the entire volume is hooked to the cliff by the bridge.
   • Lightweight technology is applied to commands such as dimensioning, mating, components insertion, interference detection, and sectional views.
   • He was interested in the picture showing drivers receiving instruction on a sectional model of an Austin chassis.
   • With existing cameras, he explained, he could make only a series of sectional views and piece them together.
   • This flagellate is surrounded by fungal hyphae (thin arrows), which appear in different sectional planes each as a bright central core with surrounding halo.
   • The collection here includes some superb Adam elevations and sectional drawings.
   • There will be working models and sectional views to explain how important it is to conserve and tap rainwater.
   • Bruneau dedicated a much more detailed study to the building, providing an accurate plan, sectional drawings, and an epigraphic register.
   • I drew for him a sectional view of the area, indicating the staircase and plaza above.
   • Since 1911, several authors have published texts of sectional anatomy and have been successful, in varying degrees, in accomplishing their objectives.
   • When the ideas have borne their full fruit, algebra will appear like a sectional model of the whole form of thought.
   • By stacking the sectional images, they can create a top-to-bottom movie showing structural and cellular details throughout the scaffold's volume.
   • This was a blown - up photocopy of the relevant portion of a sectional drawing of the relevant part of the HTV appliance.
3. 1.3 Made or supplied in sections.
   sectional sills, made from more than one piece of timber

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   • Finally, a student named Ben was selling a sectional couch in the classifieds section.
   • The project saw the aging clubhouse replaced by a sectional timber building.
   • Families have a permanent base to park their caravans or erect sectional buildings.
   • The buildings have one thing in common - they are sectional title buildings.

A sofa made in sections that can be used separately as chairs.