Meaning

• A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

• A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

• A part of a document.

• An act or instance of cutting.

• A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

• An incision or the act of making an incision.

• A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

• A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

• An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

• A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

• A right inverse.

• A piece of residential land; a plot.

• A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

• Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.

• The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.

• A sequence of rock layers.

Meaning

• To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

• To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.

• To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

• Medical To perform a cesarean section on (someone).