section
/ˈsɛkʃən/ noun A1- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- 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.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- 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.
Plural sections
From the library
My ramifications stretch out into many sections of society, but never, I am happy to say, into amateur sport, which is the best and soundest thing in England.
He unrolled one section and held it over his knee.
Humann, section of the indirect contributions, corridor A., No.
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