Definition of "sectile" []

• Of or relating to a mineral that can be cut or severed smoothly by a knife but cannot withstand pulverization. (adjective)

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• "During the campaign of 2008 the opus sectile floor of the Apodyterium and Frigidarium II of the Roman baths of Sagalassos was already examined."
• "On pietre dure, opus sectile, pictorial stones, and some pretty little pebbles."
• "There was no mistaking that painted armor of over-lapping plates or those strange, in-sectile helmets."