section

Meaning

1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
3. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
4. A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
5. An act or instance of cutting.
6. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
7. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
8. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
9. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
10. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
11. An incision or the act of making an incision.
12. (colloquial) An incision or the act of making an incision.
13. A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
14. A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
15. An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
16. A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
17. A right inverse.
18. A piece of residential land; a plot.
19. Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
20. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
21. A sequence of rock layers.
22. 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.

part

division

plane section

discussion section

Frequency

Hyphenated as

sec‧tion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛkʃən/

From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectiō (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secāre (“to cut”). More at saw.

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