section

Definitions

• 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).
• (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.
• (NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• (Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• (US) 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.
• (geology) A sequence of rock layers.