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A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
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A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
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A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
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An act or instance of cutting.
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A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
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(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
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(sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
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(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
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(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
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(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
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(New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
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(US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
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The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
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(geology) A sequence of rock layers.
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(archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
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(technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
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(Philippines, education) 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.