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** English
[wp]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [la], past participle of [la].
More at [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [sĕk′shən] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A cutting ; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-06-28 | author=w:Joris Luyendijk
|volume=189|issue=3|page=21|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly |title=Our banks
are out of control (see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/joris-luyendijk-banking-blog/2013/jun/19/banking-britain-beyond-control)
|passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector
is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what
finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage
three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad SECTION of the political
class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the
necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
1. [en] A group of instruments in an orchestra .
1. [en] A part of a [en] , especially a [en] part; often notated with § .
2. An act or instance of cutting.
3. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
4. * [en]
1. [en] A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
2. [en] A function that generalize s the notion of the graph of a function ; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle .
3. [en] A right inverse of a morphism in some category
4. [en] 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 .
5. [en] An incision or the act of making an incision.
1. [en] [en] .
2. * [en]
6. [en] thin section , a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
7. [en] [en] A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
8. [en] An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
9. [en] A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon .
10. [en] A piece of residential land; a plot .
11. [en] [en] , a unit of land area , especially in the context s of Canadian survey s and American land grant s and legal property descriptions.
12. The symbol [mul] , denoting a section of a document.
13. [en] A sequence of rock layers .
14. [en] Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy ; part of an archeological sequence .
15. [en] Angle section, L-section, angle iron , steel angle, slotted angle.
16. [en] 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.
**** Usage notes
- [Philippines] This is usually indicated using a dash that is preceded by the grade level and followed by the section's name.
**** Synonyms
- [botany] [en]
- [piece created by cutting] [en] , [en]
- [any piece] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Hyponyms
{{col4|en|string section |block section |cross section |dead section |half
section |horn section |neutral section |quarter section }}
**** Coordinate terms
- [square mile when described as a 'section'] [en] [1/640 section] , [en] - _section_ [¼ section] , [en] [¼ section in Texan contexts]
**** Coordinate terms
- [aviation] [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en| x-section|quarter-section|time
section|cosection|cryosection|downsection|ecosection|hemisection|histosection|hypersection|infrasection|microsection|midsection|multisection|odontosection|presection|sectionable|sectional|sectionary|sectionectomy|sectionize|sectionless|sectionwide|subsection|supersection|trisectionectomy|undersection|upsection|vibrosection
|abdominal section|brass section|C-section|configuration section|conic
section|critical section|file section|golden section|input-output
section|invariant section|knothole section|linkage section|neutron cross
section|nosebleed section|rhythm section|section 104 holding|section 8|section
automatic weapon|section beam|section liner|section
sign|section-house|T-section|thin section|working-storage section |bisection
|dissection |section break |sectionman |tee-section |trisection |star section
|pilot section }}
**** Related terms
{{col4|en |bisect |dissect |insect |intersect |prosect |resect |secant |sect
|sectarian |sectary |section grid |section road |sector |segment |trisect }}
**** Translations
[cutting, part cut out]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazilian] , [pt] [European]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[part, piece or subdivision of anything]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] ; [fi] [music]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [division] [hu] , [hu] , [of a construction] [hu] , [slice] [hu] , [as a shape, like a wedge] [hu] , [e.g. of a fruit] [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Malay: [ms] [obsolete] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazilian] , [pt] [European]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Tày: [tyz] , [tyz]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[part of a document]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] ; [cs] [law]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] [newspaper] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] [law]
- French: [fr] ; [fr] , [fr] [law, Canada]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [clause, article] [hu] , [paragraph, esp. in a legal text] [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] [law]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazilian] , [pt] [European]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[act or instance of cutting]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Russian: [ru] [cutting]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[image that shows an object as if cut along a plane]
[surgery: incision or the act of making an incision]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [chiefly in compounds] [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[science: thin slice of material]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[(military) group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and
forming part of a platoon]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[(category theory) right inverse] [trans-bottom]
[archeological section]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
[steel section, L-section]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Malayalam: [ml]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. To cut , divide or separate into pieces.
2. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope .
3. [en] 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.]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1998 | author=Diana Gittins | title=Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-0-415-18388-8 | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dOh-v3bUoIYC&pg=PA45&dq=sectioned | page=45
|passage=Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (
SECTIONING). [...] Informal patients, however, could be SECTIONED, and this
was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=a. 2000 | author=Lucy Johnstone | title=Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice | edition=Second | publisher=Routledge | year_published=2000 | isbn=978-0-415-21155-0 | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=nlZH-vX9oMsC&pg=PR14&dq=sectioned | page=xiv
|passage=The doctor then SECTIONED her, making her an involuntary patient, and
had her moved to a secure ward.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=Mairi Colme | title=A Divine Dance of Madness | publisher=Chipmunkapublishing | isbn=978-1-84747-023-2 | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=oJ7sFiFVNYsC&pg=PA5&dq=sectioned | page=5
|passage=After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently
SECTIONED under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my
rights, I wrote at the time;- [...]}}
1. [en] To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2012 | author=Anne Fraser | title=St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad! | page=16 | publisher=Harlequin
|passage="But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively
and you may have to SECTION her there and then."}}
1. * 2008 , Murray et al, _Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice_ , Springer Publishing Company, page 57:
2. *: You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to SECTION her until the baby declares itself."
**** Translations
[cut]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[commit to a mental hospital]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] (all meanings)
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr]
[fr]
** Interlingua
*** Etymology
From [ia], alternatively from [ia].
*** Pronunciation
- [ia]
*** Noun
[sectiones]
1. (act of) cutting
2. [ia] [en] (all meanings)
3. [en]
1. separation by cutting
2. portion , division , subdivision
3. [ia] section
4. [ia] section
**** Derived terms
{{col4|ia |dissection |intersection |resection |sectionar |trisection
|vivisection }}