section
Meaning of section
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- A part of a document.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- A right inverse.
- A piece of residential land; a plot.
- A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
- Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A sequence of rock layers.
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- Medical To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
Information about section
- The plural form of section is: sections.
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Hyphenation of section
sec-tion
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- section is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
section synonyms
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Meaning :
cutting, slice, snippet, piece, volume
section antonyms
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Translation of section
- Italian: sezione, scorporare
- French: section, sectionner, splitser, fragment, part
- Spanish: cortar, seccionar, sección
- German: aufteilen, Schnitt
- Portuguese: seccionar, secção
Anagrams of section
Words that rhyme with section
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