- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
- (n.) The act of cutting or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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