Section

['sekʃ(ə)n] or ['sɛkʃən]

Definition

(noun.) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; 'a section of a fishing rod'; 'metal sections were used below ground'; 'finished the final segment of the road'.

(noun.) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); 'he always turns first to the business section'; 'the history of this work is discussed in the next section'.

(noun.) a segment of a citrus fruit; 'he ate a section of the orange'.

(noun.) a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon.

(noun.) a small army unit usually having a special function.

(noun.) a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class.

(noun.) a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately; 'a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course'.

(noun.) (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid.

(noun.) a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people; 'no section of the nation is more ardent than the South'; 'there are three synagogues in the Jewish section'.

(noun.) a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope; 'sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue'.

(noun.) a land unit equal to 1 square mile.

Edited by Ian--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

(n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

(n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.

(n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.

(n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.

(n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.

(n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.

(n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

(n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

Typist: Remington

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Division, fragment, portion, part, piece.

Typed by Annette

Definition

n. act of cutting: a division: a portion: a distinct part of a book: the plan of any object cut through as it were to show its interior: the line formed by the intersection of two surfaces: the surface formed when a solid is cut by a plane: one of the squares each containing 640 acres into which the public lands of the United States are divided: (zool.) a group: the sign ? as a mark of reference.—v.t. to divide into sections as a ship; to reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.—adjs. Sec′tile Sec′tive capable of being cut.—n. Sectil′ity.—adj. Sec′tional pertaining to a section or distinct part: local.—n. Sec′tionalism the spirit of a class commercial or political.—adv. Sec′tionally.—ns. Sec′tion-beam in warping a roller which receives the yarn from the spools; Sec′tion-cut′ter an instrument used for making sections for microscopic work.—v.t. Sec′tionise to render sectional in scope or spirit.—ns. Sec′tion-lin′er a draftsman's instrument for ruling parallel lines; Sec′tion-plane a cut surface; Sec′tioplanog′raphy a method of laying down the sections of engineering work in railways; Sec′tiuncle a petty sect.

Typed by Clarissa

Examples

Typist: Waldo

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