A one-mile-by-one-mile square withina township used for the government surveysystem; one section equals 640 acres, 36 sectionsequal one township.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
section (noun)1.
a) the action or an instance of cutting or separating by cutting
b) a part set off by or as if by cutting
2.
a distinct part or portion of something written (as a chapter, law, or newspaper)
3.
a) the profile of something as it would appear if cut through by an intersecting plane
b) the plane figure resulting from the cutting of a solid by a plane
4.
a natural subdivision of a taxonomic group
5.
a character § used as a mark for the beginning of a section and as a reference mark
6.
a piece of land one square mile in area forming especially one of the 36 subdivisions of a township
7.
a distinct part of a territorial or political area, community, or group of people - the historic section of the city
8.
a) a part that may be, is, or is viewed as separated - a board cut into sections the northern section of the route
b) one segment of a fruit - carpel
9.
a basic military unit usually having a special function
10.
a very thin slice (as of tissue) suitable for microscopic examination
11.
a) one of the classes formed by dividing the students taking a course
b) one of the discussion groups into which a conference or organization is divided
12.
a) a part of a permanent railroad way under the care of a particular crew
b) one of two or more vehicles or trains which run on the same schedule
13.
one of several component parts that may be assembled or reassembled - a bookcase in sections
14.
a division of an orchestra composed of one class of instruments - the string section
15.
- signature part
transitive verb
1.
to cut or separate into - sections section an orange
2.
intransitive verb
to represent in sections to become cut or separated into parts
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
section (noun)1.
an area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature
SYNONYMS:
nabe, neighborhood, quarter, sectionRELATED WORDS:
belt, zone; department, division, part; precinct, ward; area, backyard, locality, place, region; barrio, enclave, ghetto, hood ( 'hood)2.
one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled
SYNONYMS:
member, partition, portion, section, segmentRELATED WORDS:
component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient, moiety, parcel; cut, length; bit, fragment, particle, scrapNEAR ANTONYMS:
whole; aggregate, composite, compound, sum, total, totality
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