section

Meanings

Plural: sections

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"
• a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
  • "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue"
• 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"
• 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"
• a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
  • "the finance section of the company"
• a land unit equal to 1 square mile
• (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
• 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"
• a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
• a small army unit usually having a special function
• a specialized division of a large organization
  • "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
• a segment of a citrus fruit
  • "he ate a section of the orange"
• the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
• A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• A group of instruments in an orchestra.
• A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
• An act or instance of cutting.
• A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
• A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
• A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• A right inverse of a morphism in some category
• A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
• A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• An incision or the act of making an incision.
• An incision or the act of making an incision.
• Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
• thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• A piece of residential land; a plot.
• Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
• The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
• A sequence of rock layers.
• Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
• Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
• A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.

Verb

• divide into segments
• To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
• To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
• To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

Synonyms

cutting, department, discussion section, division, incision, part, piece, plane section, schedule, sectio, segment, slice, snippet, split monomorphism, square mile, subdivision, surgical incision

Antonyms

whole

Related Words

bisect, dissect, insect, intersect, prosect, resect, secant, sect, sectarian, sectary, section grid, section road, sector, segment, trisect