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section

noun
/ˈsɛkʃən/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from sectiō
  2. derived from section
  3. derived from seccioun

Definitions

  1. A cutting

    A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

  2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

  3. A part of a document, especially a major part

    A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.

  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

    1. An act or instance of cutting.

    2. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

      • Japan and China also produced Noah's arks, where Noah was known as Fohi. They were of wood and beautifully decorated, the animals being bright in color and usually flat in section and fixed to flat stands.

    3. An incision or the act of making an incision.

    4. thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

    5. A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

    6. An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

    7. A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

    8. A piece of residential land

      A piece of residential land; a plot.

    9. Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian…

      Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.

    10. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.

    11. A sequence of rock layers.

    12. Archeological section

      Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.

    13. Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.

    14. A class in a school

      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.

    15. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

      • Overlap spans and neutral sections have been provided at intervals along the line, which is thus sectioned electrically, not only at the feeder station and track sectioning cabins, but also by switches at certain overlap spans.

    16. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.

    17. To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient.…

      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.

      • Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
      • The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
      • After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]

    18. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

      • "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."
      • You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."

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Derived

abdominal section, bisection, brass section, channel section, configuration section, conic section, cosection, critical section, cryosection, C-section, dissection, downsection, ecosection, file section, golden section, hemisection, histosection, hypersection, infrasection, input-output section, invariant section, knothole section, linkage section, microsection, midsection, multisection, neutron cross section, nosebleed section, odontosection, pilot section, presection, quarter-section, rhythm section, section 104 holding, section 8, sectionable, sectional, sectionary, section automatic weapon, section beam · +26 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for section. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA