1. distinct part: a distinct part that can be separated or considered separately from the whole of something
2. unit of people: a group of people forming a unit within a larger group, e.g. a subdivision of a military unit, or the musicians playing a particular kind of instrument in an orchestra
3. subdivision of document: a major subdivision of a written work such as a book or newspaper, or of an official or legal document, often numbered
4. view of something cut through: a view or representation of something cut through to show its internal structure or workings
5. U.S. geography functional area: an area of a country, county, city, or town, usually characterized by the type of activity mainly carried on there a residential section of the city
6. urban planning area of one square mile: an area of land, for purposes of land surveying, equal to (one square mile), 2.59 square kilometers (), or one thirty-sixth of a township
7. science very thin slice: a very thin slice of something removed for examination under a microscope a tissue section
8. surgery surgical cut: a surgical incision
9. rail length of track: a length of railroad track maintained by a single crew
10. botany segment of citrus fruit: a segment of an orange, grapefruit, or other citrus fruit
transitive verb (past and past participlesec·tioned, present participlesec·tion·ing, 3rd person present singularsec·tions)
Definition:
1. divide something: to divide something up into separate parts
2. cut something surgically: to make a surgical incision in something
[14th century. Via French< Latin section-< sect-, past participle of secare "cut"]
Word History
The Latin word secare "to cut," from which section is derived, is also the source of the English words bisect, dissect, insect, intersect, secateurs, sector, and segment.
