sective (sektiv)

[L. sectivus, that may be cut, sect-mastert (sekt'mås"tèr), n. The leader or founder of a sect. [Rare.] How should it be otherwise, when a blind company will follow a blind sect- master? Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 76. That sect - master [Epicurus]. J. Howe , Works, I. 28. sector (sek'tor), n. [= F. secteur = Sp. Pg. sector It. settore = D. G. Dan. Sw. sekt or , 5458 sector, a cutter, LL. a sector of a circle (tr. Gr. τομεύς ), C D B tion.] 1. In geom.: ( a ) A plane figure inclosed between the are of a circle, ellipse, or other central curve and two radii to its extremities from the center. Thus, in the figure, CDB is a sec tor of a circle. ( b ) A solid generated by the revolution of a plane sector about one of its radii. 2. A mathematical rule consisting of two flat pieces connected by a stiff rule-joint so that the broad sides move in their own planes, and bearing various scales, especially double scales which are scales of Sector, 2. Sector, 1. trigonometric functions, etc., duplicated on the two pieces and radiating from the center of the joint. The joint is opened until the distance between two certain corresponding points is equal to the indicated trigonometric line for a given radius, when the distances between all the corresponding points on all the double scales are equal to the respective trigonometric lines for the same radius. Bp. Seth Ward, of Sarum, has told me that he first sent for Mr.. Gunter, from London (being at Oxford university), to be his Profe or of Geometrie; so he came and brought with him his sector and quadrant, and fell to resolving of triangles and doeing a great many fine things. Aubrey, Lives, Henry Savill. secularism 2. Going on from age to age; accomplished or taking place in the course of ages; continued through an indefinite but long period of time; not recurrent or periodical, so far as known: as, secular change of the mean annual temperature; the secular cooling or refrigeration of the globe; the secular inequality in the motion of a planet. The last, however, is known to be periodical. It is called secular because, being dependent on the position of the orbits of the disturbing and disturbed bodies, not on the positions of the planets in the orbits, its period is exce ively long. So far as the question of a secular change of the temperature is concerned, no definite result appears to have been reached by Plant am our. J. D. Whitney, Climatic Changes, p. 227. Shrinkage consequent on the earth's secular cooling led to the folding and crushing of parts of the crust. Athenæum, No. 3071, p. 298 3. Living for an age or ages; permanent. Though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives. Milton , S. A., 1. 1707. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 275. Nature looks provokingly stable and secular . 4. Of or pertaining to the things of time or of this world, and di ociated from or having no concern with religious, spiritual, or sacred matters or uses; connected with or relating to the world or its affairs; concerned with mundane or temporal matters; temporal; worldly; profane: as, secular affairs; the secular pre ; secular education; secular music. When Christianity first appeared, how weak and defencele was it, how artle and undesigning! How utterly unsupported either by the secular arm or secular wisdom! Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. iii. consisted of a medley of differ The secular plays. ent performances, calculated chiefly to promote mirth, without any view to instruction. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 242. A secular kingdom is but as the body Lacking a soul. Tennyson, Queen Mary, iv. 1. is an arc of a circle, intended for reciprocating action. See cut under operating - table. -5. In entom., one of the veins of the wing of some insects, as the ephemerids; a branch of the cubitus. Sector of a sphere, the solid generated by the revolution of the sector of a circle about one of its radii, which remains fixed; a conic solid whose vertex coincides with the center of the sphere, and whose base is a segment of the same sphere. (See also dip - sector.) IMG:content-0490.png:[blocks in formation] He which that hath no wyf I holde him shent; He lyveth helple and al desolat - I speke of folk in secular estaat. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, L. 78. 6. Living in the world, not in the cloister; hence, not bound by monastic vows or rules, nor subject to a monastic order: used especially of parish priests and other non-monastic clergy, as distinguished from the monastic or regular clergy. Those northern nations easily embraced the religion of those they subdued, and by their devotion gave great authority and reverence, and thereby ease, to the clergy, both secular and regular. Sir W. Temple . The Spanish Archbishop of Santa Fé has for his diocese the wild territory of New Mexico, which supports only thirty-six secular priests, nearly all of whom are Spaniards or Mexicans. Nineteenth Century , XXVI. 811. Abandonment to the secular arm. See abandonment. converting oscillating into continuous rotary motion. sector-gear (sek'tor-ger), n. 1. See sector, 4. -2. Same as variable wheel (which see, under wheel).