a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
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relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
<adj.pert> a sectional view sectional drawings
consisting of or divided into sections
<adj.all> a sectional sofa sectioned plates
related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
<adj.all> sectional tensions arose over slavery
Sectional \Sec"tion*al\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a section or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. --Story.
2. Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
The last act, which crowns Il Trovatore as a great melodrama, should exercise a steady, relentless grip, but here it was disappointingly choppy and sectional.
In the face of such a general rule, sectional and local interests would soon recognise the futility of lobbying individual politicians who would no longer be capable of feathering their nests. It sounds utopian and probably is.
That occurred at the sectional level" three steps below Revell.
She recently walked out of a furniture store because the salesman offered to cut the price of a sectional couch three times.
After the latest round of consolidations, there will be 73 field divisions and 94 sectional centers.
The government said army troops would be deployed to halt black sectional fighting.
Brother Swaggart will submit quarterly written reports to the district superintendent and monthly written reports to his sectional presbyter.
Complaints, whether of communities or individuals, it is possible to adjust; but war undertaken by a coalition for sectional interests, whose progress there is no means of foreseeing, does not easily admit of creditable settlement.
It took four days to finish loading the leased tractor-trailers, which fanned out across the nation delivering the stamps to sectional postal centers for distribution to local post offices.