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say it: SEK-shuh-nuhl
sectional is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)". It is pronounced /ˈsɛkʃənəl/ — SEK-shuh-nuhl. It carries 4 recorded senses.
relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
“a sectional view”
“sectional drawings”
related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
“sectional tensions arose over slavery”
a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sectional come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.