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Sectant

Sec"tant\, n. [L. secare, sectum, to cut.] 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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