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Meaning of section | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈsɛkʃən

Definitions

  1. Distant, far, removed.
  2. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
  3. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something
  4. comma (punctuation mark)
  5. Different, diverse, distinct.
  6. A part, piece, subdivision of anything. A group of instruments in an orchestra
  7. misericord
  8. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
  9. Solitary, incommunicado, reserved, etc. talking about places or places.
  10. A group of instruments in an orchestra
  11. A group of instruments in an orchestra.
  12. A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §
  13. coma (deep sleep)
  14. A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
  15. An act or instance of cutting
  16. mane
  17. An act or instance of cutting.
  18. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
  19. A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
  20. A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
  21. A right inverse of a morphism in some category
  22. 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.
  23. An incision or the act of making an incision.
  24. Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
    abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis
  25. thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
  26. A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
  27. An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
  28. A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
  29. A piece of residential land; a plot.
    New-Zealand
  30. Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
    Canada, US
  31. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
  32. A sequence of rock layers.
  33. Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
  34. Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
  35. 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.
    Philippines

Equivalents

العربية القسم جزء قسم مقطع
Беларуская раздзел
Bosanski kapitel luku paragraf raj rez разрез
Català secció
Čeština oddíl paragraf rez
Dansk afsnit
Esperanto paragrafo
Español apartado coma pelotón sección
Français article interner section sectionner
עברית סעיף קטע
Hrvatski kapitel luku paragraf raj rez разрез
Bahasa Indonesia seksi
日本語 部分
한국어 부분
Polski działon sekcja
Português seção secção seccionar secionar
Српски kapitel luku paragraf raj rez разрез
Kiswahili kifungu
Tagalog pangkat tapyas

Examples

“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.”
“The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn.”
“Japan and China also produced Noah's arks, where Noah was known as Fohi. They were of wood and beautifully decorated, the animals being bright in color and usually flat in section and fixed to flat stands.”
“They had planned to go into my section scar but the surgeon didnʼt think he could see well enough.”

CEFR level

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Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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