section

• a specialized division of a large organization
• a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
• the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
• (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
• a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
• a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
• a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
• one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
• a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
• a land unit equal to 1 square mile
• a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
• a small army unit usually having a special function
• a segment of a citrus fruit
• divide into segments
• The act of cutting, or separation by cutting
• A part separated from something
• A distinct part or portion of a book or writing
• A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like
• One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided
• The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point
• A division of a genus
• A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases
• The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Alabama

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