Usually means: Part of a whole division.
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We found 63 dictionaries that define the word section:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. section: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. section: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. section: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. section: Collins English Dictionary
  5. section: Vocabulary.com
  6. Section, section: Wordnik
  7. section: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. section: Wiktionary
  9. section: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. section: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. section: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. section: Dictionary.com
  13. section: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. section: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Section (Alpine club), Section (United States land surveying), Section (archaeology), Section (army), Section (biology), Section (bookbinding), Section (botany), Section (category theory), Section (documents), Section (fiber bundle), Section (fibre bundle), Section (group theory), Section (land), Section (military unit), Section (music), Section (typography), Section, The Section (band), The Section: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Section: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. section: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. section: Rhymezone
  19. section, section (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. section: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SECTION: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. section: Free Dictionary
  23. section: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. section: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. section: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. -section: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  6. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. section: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Section: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  4. Section (disambiguation), section: Legal dictionary
  5. Section (disambiguation), section: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Section (Scouting), Section (United States land surveying), Section (disambiguation), section: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Section: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Section (disambiguation), section: Medical dictionary
  5. Section: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Section: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. section: Rhododendron Glossary
  4. section, section, section, section, section, section, section, section, section: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. section: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. section, the section: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. section: Pen Glossary
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sectioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
noun:  A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
noun:  (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
noun:  A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
noun:  An act or instance of cutting.
noun:  A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
noun:  (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
noun:  (topology) 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.
noun:  (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
noun:  (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
noun:  (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
noun:  (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
noun:  (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
noun:  (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
noun:  (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
noun:  (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
noun:  (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
noun:  The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
noun:  (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
noun:  (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
noun:  (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
noun:  (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
verb:  To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
verb:  To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
verb:  (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
verb:  (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
noun:  (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section. [Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.]

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