Dictionary Definition
section
Noun
1 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" [syn: subdivision]
2 a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or
other substance) for examination under a microscope; "sections from
the left ventricle showed diseased tissue"
3 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"
4 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" [syn: segment]
5 a small team of policemen working as part of a
police platoon
6 one of the portions into which something is
regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the
written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company";
"the BBC's engineering division" [syn: part, division]
7 a land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile
on a side
8 (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting
through a solid [syn: plane
section]
9 a division of an orchestra containing all
instruments of the same class
10 a small army unit usually having a special
function
11 a specialized division of a large
organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got
a job in the historical section of the Treasury" [syn: department]
12 a segment of a citrus fruit; "he ate a section
of the orange"
13 the cutting of or into body tissues or organs
(especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) [syn: incision, surgical
incision] v : divide into segments; "segment an orange";
"segment a compound word" [syn: segment]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From sectio, noun of action form from perfect passive participle sectus + noun of action suffix -ioNoun
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, division.
- A part of a document.
Antonyms
Translations
cutting
part of a document
- Chinese: 段 (duàn)
- Czech: oddíl
- Danish: afsnit
- German: Abschnitt, Paragraf
- Portuguese: seção
- Russian: раздел
- Spanish: sección
Translations to be checked
Extensive Definition
Section may refer to:
- Section (bookbinding), papers folded during bookbinding
- Section (botany)
- Section
(category theory), also in homological algebra, and including:
- Section (fiber bundle), in topology
- Part of a sheaf (mathematics)
- Section (group theory)
- Section (military unit)
- Section (music)
- Section (Scouting)
- Section (United States land surveying)
- Section, Alabama, a town in the United States
- Section sign (§), in typography
- Archaeological section
- Caesarean section, method of child birth
- Pullman section, a type of sleeping car accommodation
- Histological section, a thin slice of tissue used for microscopic examination
- Statigraphic section, layers of rocks
- Section, a division of a forest range in India
- Section, an instrumental group within an orchestra
- Involuntary commitment, known in the United Kingdom as sectioning
See also
- Cross section (disambiguation)
- Division (disambiguation)
- Part
- Segment (disambiguation)
section in French: Section
section in German: Schnitt
section in Dutch: Sectie
section in Polish: Sekcja
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
KP,
abscission, adjunct, airspace, allocate, allot, amputation, anacrusis, anastomotic
operation, apportion,
area, army, army group, article, back matter, bass
passage, battalion,
battery, battle group,
belt, biotype, block, blood, bloodless operation,
book, bourdon, bracket, branch, break up, bridge, brigade, burden, butchering, cadence, cadre, capital operation, caste, category, chapter, chopping, chorus, clan, class, clause, cleavage, cleave, clos, close, coda, cohort, column, combat command, combat
team, company,
compensating operation, component, confines, continental shelf,
contingent, corneal
transplant, corps,
corridor, country, crescent operation,
croft, cross section,
cut, cut up, cutting, department, detachment, detail, development, dichotomy, district, divide, divide up, division, divvy, divvy up, dole, elective operation, element, emergency operation,
enclave, enucleation, environs, estate, excision, exploratory
operation, exposition, family, fascicle, fenestration
operation, field, field
army, field train, figure, file, fission, flying column, folderol, folio, forty, fraction, front matter,
garrison, gathering, genotype, genus, grade, ground, group, grouping, harmonic close,
head, heading, heart transplant,
heartland, hinterland, installment, interlude, intermezzo, interval
operation, introductory phrase, item, kidney transplant, kin, kingdom, kitchen police,
kraal, label, laceration, land, leg, legion, level, livraison, locality, lot, major operation, maniple, measure, measure out, member, milieu, minor operation, moiety, movement, musical phrase,
musical sentence, mutilation, neighborhood, number, offshore rights, operation, order, organ transplant, organ
transplantation, organization, ornament, outfit, page, pale, palliative operation,
paragraph, parcel, parcel of land, parcel
out, part, particular, partition, parts, passage, patch, percentage, period, phalanx, phrase, phylum, piece, pigeonhole, place, plat, platoon, plot, plot of ground, portion, position, posse, precinct, precincts, predicament, premises, purlieus, quad, quadrangle, quadrant, quarter, quota, race, radical operation, random
sample, rank, rating, real estate, refrain, regiment, region, remainder, removal, rending, resection, resolution, response, ripping, ritornello, rubric, salient, sample, sampling, scission, sector, segment, sentence, separate, sept, serial, series, set, severance, share, sheet, signature, slashing, slice, slicing, soil, space, species, sphere, split, split up, splitting, squad, squadron, square, stage, stanza, statement, station, status, strain, stratum, subclass, subdivide, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subgroup, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, surgery, surgical intervention,
surgical operation, surgical technique, tactical unit, tailpiece, task force,
tearing, terrain, territory, text, the knife, three-mile limit,
title, tract, train, transplant, tribe, troop, tutti, tutti passage, twelve-mile
limit, unit, variation, variety, verse, vicinage, vicinity, volume, wing, zone