To allow maintenance to sections of the overhead line without having to turn off the entire system, the overhead line system is broken into electrically separated portions known as sections.

At this point the separated portion of his army returns, eager for victory.

The enzyme complex DNA polymerase engages the separated portion of the molecule and initiates the process of replication.

Wilkie caught the separated portion with a tractor-pressor combination and moved it aside.

At most we see five eclipses of the Sun each year (all at widely separated portions of the Earth's surface, of course) and sometimes as few as two.

From between the separated portions, The Shadow produced a tiny slip of thin paper.

McClellan accidentally found a copy of Lee's orders to his subordinate commanders and planned to isolate and defeat the separated portions of Lee's army.

However, the separated portions can be reconnected to the body provided that the Immortal has the pieces together and is in the condition to perform the reconnection.

Before him lay the separated portions of the bomb which had been brought from the office of Barr & Childs.

I believe the western part to be a separated portion of continental Asia, while the eastern is a fragmentary prolongation of a former west Pacific continent".