section

Etymology
From, from , from , from , past participle of. More at.

Noun

 * 1) A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
 * 2) A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
 * 3)  A group of instruments in an orchestra.
 * 4)  A part of a, especially a  part; often notated with §.
 * 5) An act or instance of cutting.
 * 6) A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
 * 7)  A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
 * 8)  A function that  generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
 * 9)  A right inverse of a morphism in some category
 * 10)  An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
 * 11)  An incision or the act of making an incision.
 * 12)  A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
 * 13)  A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
 * 14)  An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
 * 15)  A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
 * 16)  A right inverse.
 * 17)  A piece of residential land; a plot.
 * , a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
 * 1) The symbol, denoting a section of a document.
 * 2)  A sequence of rock layers.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  A right inverse.
 * 2)  A piece of residential land; a plot.
 * , a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
 * 1) The symbol, denoting a section of a document.
 * 2)  A sequence of rock layers.
 * 3)  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.

Coordinate terms

 * , section ,

Translations

 * Arabic: قِسْم,
 * Hijazi Arabic: قسم, جزء
 * Belarusian: сячэ́нне, разрэ́з
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maori: topenga
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: earrann, cuibhreann, roinn
 * Slovak: rez
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog: tapyas
 * Ukrainian: сі́чення, ро́зріз


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: бүлек
 * Belarusian:, падзе́л, сэ́кцыя
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , , ;
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: अनुभाग
 * Hungarian:, ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: rannóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, セクション
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 섹션
 * Latin: sectiō
 * Malay: seksi, seksyen
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tūtanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: seksjon
 * Nynorsk: seksjon
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , , , , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuid, pàirt, earrann, cuibhreann, roinn
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: tapyas,
 * Thai:
 * Tày: boỏng, bộ
 * Ukrainian: ро́зділ, по́діл,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bashkir: бүлек
 * Belarusian:, падзе́л
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ;
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: paragrafo
 * Finnish:, , , , , , ,
 * French: ; ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: περιοχή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tekiona
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: earrann, roinn
 * Slovak: oddiel, paragraf
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Ukrainian: ро́зділ, по́діл


 * Belarusian: разраза́нне
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: розрі́зування


 * Belarusian: разрэ́з, сячэ́нне
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Ukrainian: ро́зріз, сі́чення


 * Belarusian: зрэз
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: tapyas
 * Ukrainian: зріз


 * Belarusian: аддзяле́нне
 * Bulgarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Ukrainian: відді́лення


 * Maori: tekiona, tekihana


 * Esperanto:
 * Malayalam:

Verb

 * 1) To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
 * 2) To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
 * 3)  To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient.
 * 4)  To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
 * 5) * 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:
 * You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."
 * 1)  To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
 * 2) * 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:
 * You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."
 * 1) * 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:
 * You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: secionar, seccionar


 * French:
 * Norwegian: tvangsinnlegge
 * Russian: упечь в психушку

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (all meanings)

Etymology
From, alternatively from.

Noun

 * 1) (act of) cutting
 * 2)   (all meanings)
 * 3) separation by cutting
 * 4) portion, division, subdivision
 * 5)  section
 * 6)  section
 * 1)  section