adjective
- capable of being cut smoothly with a knife
Usage: geology; mineralogy
Examples
- The sectile mineral could be sliced into thin sheets.
- Gold is highly sectile and can be cut with a blade.
- The geologist identified the sectile properties of the specimen.
- Unlike brittle minerals, sectile ones bend rather than break when cut.
- The sectile nature of the metal made it easy to work with.
- Students learned to distinguish between sectile and malleable properties.