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section

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 157.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
  2. noun A part, piece, subdivision of anything. A group of instruments in an orchestra.
    The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn.
  3. noun A group of instruments in an orchestra.
    The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn.
  4. noun A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
  5. noun An act or instance of cutting.
  6. noun A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane). A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight. 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. A right inverse of a morphism in some category
  7. noun A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

segment subdivision division part department incision plane section tranche sectional piece

Often followed by

of is on and in

Word family

sectioned sectioning sections

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