SECTANT

Definition: SECTANT

SECTANT

Noun

1. One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Sectant \Sec"tant\, noun. [Latin expression secare, sectum, to cut.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: SECTANT

Non-English Usage: "SECTANT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (nonconformist, sectarian).

Words rhyming with "SECTANT" (pronounced 'Sec"tant'): Amplectant, Blatant, Distant, Dotant, Equidistant, Extant, Flotant, Gestant, humectant, important, Inequidistant, Lactant, Montant, Natant, Nutant, Octant, Pregustant, reluctant, Remontant, Reptant, Restant, Saltant, self-important, sextant, Spectant, statant, supernatant. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: ascent, centas, enacts, secant, stacte, stance.
	-2 letters: acnes, antes, canes, canst, cants, caste, cates, cents, cesta, enact, etnas, nates, neats, netts, scant, scatt, scena, scent, stane, state, taces, tacet, tacts, taste, tates, teats, tecta, tents, testa.
	-3 letters: aces, acne, acts, anes, ante, ants, ates, cane, cans, cant, case, cast, cate, cats, cent, east.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: castanet, entastic, etchants, nictates, scantest, tetanics, transect.
	+2 letters: castanets, catenates, cattiness, coattends, cotenants, excitants, interacts, intestacy, pancettas, pittances, reactants, scantiest, stanchest, stonechat, tacitness, taconites, tentacles, transects, transfect, truncates, tunicates.
	+3 letters: ancientest, anecdotist, anesthetic, antiseptic, austenitic, carnotites, catchments, centralest, centralist, certainest, chattiness, constative, constipate, contactees, contestant, contrasted, cotangents, emittances, enactments, entrechats, executants, expectants, hatchments, humectants, injectants, intactness, intercaste, nematocyst, nictitates, nuthatches, psittacine, punctuates, quittances, recontacts, reductants, sanctities, scattergun, scattering, snatchiest, spectating, staunchest, stonechats, tenacities, transacted, transected, transfects, utterances, ventifacts.
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