Definition of section

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Section (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

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Title :: Title (n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book..
Plan :: Plan (a.) A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram..
Block :: Block (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below..
Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
Bistort :: Bistort (n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent..
Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular..
Intergrave :: Intergrave (v. t.) To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.
Insection :: Insection (n.) A cutting in; incisure; incision.
Intersection :: Intersection (n.) The act, state, or place of intersecting..
Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
Sectionality :: Sectionality (n.) The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
Inscription :: Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle..
Section :: Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase..
Anatomy :: Anatomy (n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection..
Class :: Class (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader..
Subovated :: Subovate (a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate..
Trochilus :: Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia..
Dissection :: Dissection (n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I..
Secancy :: Secancy (n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another..
Orthography :: Orthography (n.) A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section..
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