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section sec·tion

Spelling: [sek-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈsɛk ʃən/

Section is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in section (ceinost).

Definitions for section

noun

1. a part that is cut off or separated.
2. a distinct part or subdivision of anything, as an object, country, community, class, or the like:
3. a distinct part or subdivision of a writing, as of a newspaper, legal code, chapter, etc.:
4. one of a number of parts that can be fitted together to make a whole:
5. (in most of the U.S. west of Ohio) one of the 36 numbered subdivisions, each one square mile (2.59 sq. km or 640 acres), of a township.
6. an act or instance of cutting; separation by cutting.
7. Surgery. the making of an incision. an incision.
8. a thin slice of a tissue, mineral, or the like, as for microscopic examination.
9. a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane, showing its internal structure.
10. Military. a small unit consisting of two or more squads. Also called staff section. any of the subdivisions of a staff. a small tactical division in naval and air units.
11. Railroads. a division of a sleeping car containing both an upper and a lower berth. a length of trackage, roadbed, signal equipment, etc., maintained by one crew.
12. any of two or more trains, buses, or the like, running on the same route and schedule at the same time, one right behind the other, and considered as one unit, as when a second is necessary to accommodate more passengers than the first can carry:
13. a segment of a naturally segmented fruit, as of an orange or grapefruit.
14. a division of an orchestra or band containing all the instruments of one class:
15. Bookbinding. signature (def 8).
16. Also called section mark. a mark used to indicate a subdivision of a book, chapter, or the like, or as a mark of reference to a footnote.
17. Theater. one of a series of circuits for controlling certain lights, as footlights.
18. shape (def 12).

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or divide into sections.
2. to cut through so as to present a section.
3. Surgery. to make an incision.

Origin of section

1550-60; Latin sectiōn- (stem of sectiō) a cutting, equivalent to sect(us) (past participle of secāre to cut; see saw¹) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for section

At 3:45 am Sunday police arrested 29 year-old Eric Linsker at his apartment in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

Editor's Note: This article has been revised to include the definition and text of section 12.

His section on why he and his wife split—he essentially chose soccer over her—would be risky if its candor were not so refreshing.

Manttan is keen to carry out research on that Burmese side of the railway as his father worked on that section.

In what section of the city did most of the working girls, who had no homes, live?

I there met young men, many, and not the least noticeable of whom, came from this section.

Just now our section of the line is quiet, so I often go and sit there.

The section tenanted by the family of Shewish lay furthest from the door.

The Bunerwals belong to the Yusaf section, of the Yusafzai tribe.

Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.