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Section may refer to:
- Section (bookbinding), papers folded during bookbinding
- Section (botany)
- Section (category theory), also in homological algebra, and including:
- Section (group theory)
- Section (military unit)
- Section (music)
- Section (Scouting)
- Section (United States land surveying)
- Section, Alabama, a town in the United States
- Section sign (§), in typography
- Archaeological section
- Caesarean section, method of child birth
- Pullman section, a type of sleeping car accommodation
- Histological section, a thin slice of tissue used for microscopic examination
- Statigraphic section, layers of rocks
- Section, a division of a forest range in India
- Section, an instrumental group within an orchestra
- Involuntary commitment, known in the United Kingdom as sectioning
See also
In Bookbinding, section (sometimes gathering) refers to a group of bifolios or sheets of paper stacked together and folded in half In Botany, a section is a low-level Taxonomic rank directly below Subgenus. In Category theory, a branch of Mathematics, a section is a right inverse of a morphism In the Mathematical field of Topology, a section (or cross section) of a Fiber bundle, &pi: E &rarr B In Mathematics, a sheaf is a tool for systematically tracking locally defined data attached to the Open sets of a Topological space. This article is not about the use of section as a transversal of the cosets of a subgroup In Group theory a section of a group G A section is a small Infantry unit first introduced in the British Army. In Music, a section is "a complete but not independent Musical idea " (Bye 1993 p Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide Youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical mental and spiritual In US land surveying, a section is an area nominally one Mile square containing 640 Acres (2 Section is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. The section sign (§ Unicode U+00A7 HTML entity § is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section In Archaeology a section is a view in part of the archaeological sequence showing it in the vertical plane as a cross section, and thereby illustrating A Caesarean section (or Cesarean section in American English) also known as C-section, is a form of Childbirth in which a surgical The sleeping car or sleeper is a railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another primarily for the purpose of making Histological section refers to thin slices of tissue applied to a Microscopic slide, usually around 5 to 10 Micrometres thick which are viewed A stratigraphic section is a sequence of layers of rocks in the order they were deposited A forest range is a term used to signify an area containing one or more (usually demarcated and (usually protected or resource-managed forests for administrative purposes An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well Involuntary commitment is the practice of using legal means or forms as part of a Mental health law to commit a person to a Mental hospital, Insane asylum
Dictionary
section
-noun
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, division.
- A part of a document.
-verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- (UK) To commit, as for mental health reasons
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