resection (English, verb)
expansion: resection (third-person singular simple present resections, present participle resectioning, simple past and past participle resectioned)
Senses:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
qualifier: digital image processing
glosses: To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
glosses: To redivide into new sections.
topics: education
glosses: To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
tags: India
glosses: To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
glosses: To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
glosses: To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital.
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
Forms:
form: resections
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resectioning
tags: participle
present
form: resectioned
tags: participle
past
form: resectioned
tags: past