SECTION
\sˈɛkʃən], \sˈɛkʃən], \s_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of SECTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
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(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
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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"
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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"
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a segment of a citrus fruit; "he ate a section of the orange"
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a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
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a small army unit usually having a special function
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a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
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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"
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a land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side
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a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope; "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue"
By Princeton University
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the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
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(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
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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"
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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"
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a segment of a citrus fruit; "he ate a section of the orange"
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a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
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a small army unit usually having a special function
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a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
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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"
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a land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
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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.
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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.
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A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign .
By Oddity Software
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A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
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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.
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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.
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A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign .
By Noah Webster.
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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; part or portion cut off; a representation of an object as if cut in two crosswise or lengthwise by a plane; as, a transverse section of a steam radiator; slice; subdivision of a chapter, law, etc.; distinct part of a country, people, community, or class.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The act of cutting. 2. A cut or division. 3. A cut surface. 4. A thin slice of any material for examination under the microscope. 5. A segment or part of any organ or structure delimited from the remainder.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Act of cutting: a division: a portion: the plan of any object cut through, as it were, to show its interior: the line formed by the intersection of two surfaces: the surface formed when a solid is cut by a plane: a square mile or 640 acres of land.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of cutting or separating by cutting; a part separated from the rest; adivision; a distinct portion; the subdivision of a chapter; a distinct part of a city, country, or people; the representation of an object, as a building, machine, &c., cut asunder vertically; the intersection of one surface with another, or of a surface with a solid.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A part separated from the rest; a distinct part or portion; a division, as of a book, a country, &c.; the representation of any building or object as it would appear if cut or sliced through from top to bottom; in geom., the line formed by the intersection of two surfaces; the surface formed when a solid body is cut by a plane; in U.S., a tract of land of 640 acres.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Sectio- s. Sigaultian, Symphyseotomy.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Act of cutting or of separating by cutting;—a part separated from the rest; a division; a portion;—specifically, a distinct part of a book or writing; the subdivision of a chapter, law, or other writing; hence, the character §, often used to denote such a division;-a distinct part of a city, country, people, class, or the like;—representation of any thing as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; profile.
