Sect Vocabulary

to cut across something

• transect

• bisect

• trisect

• dissect

a separate part of something

• sectional

• section

• bisect

• sector

a separate part of a society, group, or area

• sectional

• trisect

• sector

• intersection

to cut into three separate pieces

• bisect

• insect

• sectional

• trisect

a class of small arthropod animals that has three separate sections to

their bodies: head, thorax, abdomen

• insect

• sectional

• sector

• trisect

a couch that is made up of separate pieces

• sector

• sectional

• section

• bisect

to cut into two pieces

• trisect

• dissect

• bisect

• transect

surgery on living animals; medical research that involves cutting into

living animals to study organs, tissues, or diseases

• dissection

• sectional

• sector

• vivisection

to cut apart for the purpose of investigation

• dissect

• vivisection

• sector

• trisect

the point at which two lines or roads meet and cut across each other

• section

• intersection

• sectional

• trisect