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UK
/sˈɛkʃən/
]
[ US /ˈsɛkʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
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a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
the history of this work is discussed in the next section
he always turns first to the business section -
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
the BBC's engineering division
the written part of the exam
the finance section of the company -
a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue -
a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course - a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
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a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
there are three synagogues in the Jewish section
no section of the nation is more ardent than the South -
one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
a section of a fishing rod
metal sections were used below ground
finished the final segment of the road - a small army unit usually having a special function
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a segment of a citrus fruit
he ate a section of the orange -
a specialized division of a large organization
you'll find it in the hardware department
she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury - the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
VERB
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divide into segments
segment a compound word
segment an orange
How To Use section In A Sentence
- The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
- A view of the steam-chest side of the cylinder is given in Figure 323, and a horizontal cross section of the cylinder, the steam-chest and the valves, is shown in Figure 324. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught
- A section of a branch of birch or willow from the north only a couple of inches in diameter will show one or two hundred annual rings. Factors Affecting Development of Canada's North
- He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
- We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.
- This can entail harming companies that would be as efficient and as effective as Google is in these areas but for their limited access to consumers, creating a clear violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, of American law on monopolization, and on European competition law. Eric K. Clemons: One Click Away? Maybe and Maybe Not
- I was totally expecting you to say that you read a section looking for the miscut part and got yourself hideously freaked out for the bike ride home. Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen King
- Petrifications, where no organic material remains, are usually prepared as thin sections or polished and studied under reflected light.
- We've gotten better with our techniques and applying them predeparture, ensuring we're looking at as broad a section of potential risk as possible, said Kevin McAleenan, deputy assistant commissioner of field operations at Customs and Border Protection, or CBP.CBP said the gap in U.S. security practices wasn't obvious until after the attempted Christmas attack. U.S. blocks 350 with suspected ties to terrorists
- Thin sections were placed on the grids for electron microscopy and stained with lead citrate.
