section

IPA: sˈɛkʃʌn

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.
(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
(sciences) 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.
(category theory) A right inverse.
(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.
(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.
(surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section. [Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.]

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

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