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Meaning of 'section' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Section [ n.]
- The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
- A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
- A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
- 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.

Meaning of 'section' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . section [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
Example in sentence:
  • a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course
Meaning (2):
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
Example in sentence:
  • a section of a fishing rod;
  • finished the final segment of the road;
  • metal sections were used below ground
Meaning (3):
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
Example in sentence:
  • he always turns first to the business section;
  • the history of this work is discussed in the next section
Meaning (4):
- a segment of a citrus fruit
Example in sentence:
  • he ate a section of the orange
Meaning (5):
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
Example in sentence:
  • no section of the nation is more ardent than the South;
  • there are three synagogues in the Jewish section
Meaning (6):
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
Example in sentence:
  • sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue
Meaning (7):
- a specialized division of a large organization
Example in sentence:
  • she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury;
  • you'll find it in the hardware department
Meaning (8):
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
Example in sentence:
  • the BBC's engineering division;
  • the finance section of the company;
  • the written part of the exam
9 . section [ v]
Meaning (9):
- divide into segments
Example in sentence:
  • segment a compound word;
  • segment an orange

Nearby Words:

secale secancy secant secco secede seceded seceder seceding secern secerned

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