Section
Definition of Section
Sec´tion | n. | 1. | The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies. | | 2. | A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice. | | 3. | 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. | | 3. | (Geom.) 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. | | 4. | 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. | | 4. | (Nat. Hist.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign . | | 5. | 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 preëmption laws. | | 5. | (Mus.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase. | | 6. | 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.| Conic sections | | (Geom.) See under Conic. |
|
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, crescent operation, croft, cross section, cut, cut up, cutting, department, detachment, detail, development, dichotomy, divide, divide up, 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, 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, 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
|
Browse
Secretion
Secretist
Secretitious
Secretive
Secretiveness
Secretly
Secretness
Secreto-motory
Secretory
Sect
Sectant
Sectarian
Sectarianism
Sectarianize
Sectarism
Sectarist
Sectary
Sectator
Sectile
Sectility
-Section-
Section liner
Sectional
Sectional boiler
Sectional dock
Sectionalism
Sectionality
Sectionalize
Sectionally
Sectionize
Sectism
Sectist
Sectiuncle
Sector
Sector of a sphere
Sectoral
Sectorial
Secular
Secular canon
Secular canoness
Secular equation
|