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Third Section(encyclopedia)
section(2)(dictionary)
section(1)(dictionary)
Section 482(finance)
C-section(health)
Section 16(b)(finance)
Section 16(a)(finance)
Section 482(money)
Section 423(money)

section(1) (iou)



section noun. LME.
[French, or Latin sectio(n-), from sect- pa. ppl stem of secare cut: see -ION.]
gen. A part separated or cut off from something; each of the portions into which a thing is cut or divided. LME.
T. Keneally He picked up his axe and began to split the sections of box-tree.
b. A subdivision of a book, newspaper, statute, document, etc. L16.
A. Bleasdale He is looking down at the racing section of The Daily Mirror.
c. Taxonomy. A subdivision of a classificatory group, esp. (Botany) of a large genus or subgenus. E18.
d. An area of land, a district; spec. (a) N. Amer. an area of one square mile, esp. of undeveloped or agricultural land; (b) (chiefly US) a district of a town etc. exhibiting particular characteristics and regarded as a discrete or distinct area; (c) Austral. & NZ an area of undeveloped land; a plot of land suitable for building on; (d) in various African countries, an administrative district usu. comprising a town and a number of villages. L18.
e. A distinct subdivision or group forming a separate part of a larger body of people and often characterized by shared political opinions or common aims and interests. M19.
f. Military. Orig., a fourth part of a company or platoon. Now, any of various small tactical fighting units. M19.
C. Ryan I told one section to open fire and a second..to rush the bridge.
g. A portion of a sleeping-car containing two berths. US. M19.
h. The smallest administrative subdivision of a railway, usu. a mile or two in length. US. L19.
i. Any of a number of component parts of something which can be dismantled or reassembled as required. L19.
D. Profumo Assembling the three sections of his shotgun.
j. Geology. A subdivision of a stratigraphical system. Now rare or obsolete. L19.
k. Each of two or more trains running on the same schedule and route with a specified interval of time between them. US. L19.
l. Music. A group of similar instruments forming part of a band or orchestra; the players of such instruments. L19.
brass section, horn section, string section, etc. rhythm section: see RHYTHM noun.
Jazz Journal International He headed the saxophone section.
m. A metal bar, esp. one with a cross-section that is not simply round, square, or flat. L19.
n. A fare stage on a bus or tram route. Austral. & NZ. M20.
Math.
a. Intersection. LME-M19.
b. A segment of a circle. L16-E18.
c. The curve of intersection of two surfaces. E18.
d. The cutting of a solid by a plane; (the area of) a plane figure resulting from such a cutting; the figure which would be produced by cutting through a material object in a certain plane. E18.
principal section: see PRINCIPAL adjective. SAGITTAL section.
e. The dividing of a line into parts. E19.
golden section: see GOLDEN adjective.
The action or an act of cutting or dividing. Now rare exc. with ref. to surgery and anatomy. M16.
b. Prosody. A caesura. L16-L17.
c. = Caesarean section s.v. CAESAREAN adjective 1. colloq. M20.
a. A representation of an object, as a building, a piece of machinery, the body, etc., as it would appear if cut across along a vertical or horizontal plane. Freq. in in section. M17.
median section, sagittal section, etc.
A. Gray The tunnel was..circular in section.
b. Geology. (An exposed surface showing) the succession of strata in a particular location. M19.
Typography. The sign , orig. used to introduce the number of a section of a book, document, etc., and now used also as a mark of reference to notes in the margin or at the foot of a page. Also section-mark. E18.
A very thin slice of tissue, rock, etc., cut for microscopic examination; esp. = thin section s.v. THIN adjective, adverb, & noun. L19.
D. Attenborough Cellular structure is preserved so..you can look at sections..through the microscope.
Comb.: Section Eight US Military slang discharge from the army under section eight of army regulations on the grounds of insanity or inability to adjust to army life; section-eight verb trans. (US Military slang) discharge (a person) from the army on grounds of insanity or inability to adjust to army life; section head (a) the person in charge of a section of an organization; (b) the heading of a section in a newspaper or periodical; section house US a house occupied by the people responsible for maintaining a section of a railway; section-line (a) the boundary of a section of land (now US); (b) a line indicating the plane along which a section is (to be) made; section-mark: see sense 5 above; section sergeant a police sergeant in charge of a section of a police division.