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
- Each plate section has a rod to connect it with its proper terminal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This interior cylinder readily revolves on an axis, _g_, _g_, shown in the section of the instrument as seen edgewise. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Another form of the electric magnet is shown in cross-section in Fig. 3. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The percentage of drop varies according to the quantity of copper used in conductors, both as to cross-section and length. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In Fig. 282 is given a section and plan view of the Greener mechanism, which was patented July 6, 1880, No. 229,604, and was one of the first guns of this kind put on the market. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When such a plate has been developed and fixed, as described in Section 121, we have the so-called negative (Fig. 83). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- After it is over--say at eight to-night--come you to me, in Saint Antoine, and we will give information against these people at my Section. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the following Sections some of these forms will be studied. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In these preceding ten sections we have been dealing with an age of division, of separated nationalities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Out of the few simple machines mentioned in the preceding Sections has developed the complex machinery of to-day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- How refraction accomplishes these results will be explained in the following Sections. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He was a vivisector, made sections of the brain in order to determine the funct ions of its parts, and severed the gustatory, optic, and auditory nerves with a similar end in view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the next three sections we will consider the origin and quality of these irruptions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In some sections more anti-slavery men belonged to the Democratic party, and in others to the Whigs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The commutator had 73 sections. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The issue thus being joined, the legal battle raged over different sections of the country. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The general scheme, briefly outlined, is to prepare a model and plans of the house to be cast, and then to design a set of molds in sections of convenient size. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Waldo