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== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: sĕk′shən, IPA(key): /ˈsɛkʃən/ Rhymes: -ɛkʃən Hyphenation: sec‧tion === Noun === section (plural sections) A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something. A part, piece, subdivision of anything. (music) 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). (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight. (topology) 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. (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category Coordinate term: retraction Synonym: split monomorphism (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) 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. Hyponym: global section (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision. (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section. (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot. (US, Canada, law and land surveying) 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. (geology) A sequence of rock layers. (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence. (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle. (Philippines, education) 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. ==== Usage notes ==== (Philippines): This is usually indicated using a dash that is preceded by the grade level and followed by the section's name. ==== Synonyms ==== (botany, zoology): sectio (piece created by cutting): cutting, slice (any piece): division, part, slice, piece, snippet ==== Antonyms ==== whole ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== (square mile when described as a 'section'): acre (1/640 section), quarter-section (¼ section), labor (¼ section in Texan contexts) ==== Coordinate terms ==== (aviation): waterline, buttock line ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned) (transitive) To cut, divide or separate into pieces. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) 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. Synonym: (Australia) schedule (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone). 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57: You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself." ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “section”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “section”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “section”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === ecotins, noetics, notices == French == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin sectiō. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɛk.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === section f (plural sections) section ==== Derived terms ==== sectionner ==== Related terms ==== scier dissection === Further reading === “section”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === notices == Interlingua == === Etymology === From secar +‎ -ion, alternatively from Latin sectiō. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sekˈti̯on/ === Noun === section (plural sectiones) (act of) cutting (surgery) section (all meanings) section separation by cutting portion, division, subdivision (natural history, military, etc.) section (geometry, drawing, etc.) section ==== Derived terms ====