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Section, Sectioning, or Sectioned may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
[edit]- Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea
- Section (typography), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents
- Section sign (§), typographical characters
- Section (bookbinding), a group of sheets, folded in the middle, bound into the binding together
- The Section (band), a 1970s American instrumental rock band
- The Outpost (1995 film), also known as The Section
- Section, an instrumental group within an orchestra
- "Section", a song by 2 Chainz from the 2016 album ColleGrove
- "Sectioning" (Peep Show), a 2005 television episode
- David "Section" Mason, a fictional character in Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Organisations
[edit]- Section (Alpine club)
- Section (military unit)
- Section (Scouting)
- Section, the name for a shift or team of police officers in various police forces, particularly in the Commonwealth (the term is no longer used in the British police, in which it originated and where it was the group of officers headed by a Sergeant)
Science, technology and mathematics
[edit]Science
[edit]- Section (archaeology), a view in part of the archaeological sequence showing it in the vertical plane
- Section (biology), a taxonomic rank that is applied differently between botany and zoology
- Histological section, a thin slice of tissue used for microscopic examination, achieved by sectioning
Mathematics
[edit]- Section (category theory), a right inverse of some morphism
- Section (fiber bundle), in topology
- Part of a sheaf (mathematics)
- Section (group theory), a quotient object of a subobject
- Conic section, intersection of a cone and a plane
Other uses in science and technology
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, an HTML5 markup- Sectioning (car), a customization of hot rod cars
Surveying
[edit]- Section (United States land surveying), an area nominally one square mile
- Section, an area of one square mile in Dominion Land Survey, Western Canada
- Section, part of the Alberta Township System
Other uses
[edit]- Section, Alabama, a town in the United States
- Section (rail transport), a portion of railway line or a portion of a train
- Sectioning, involuntary commitment for severe mental illness
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Section
- All pages with titles containing Section
- Cross section (disambiguation)
- Division (disambiguation)
- Part (disambiguation)
- Sectional (disambiguation)
- Sector (disambiguation)
- Segment (disambiguation)
- Caesarean section, or C-section, the use of surgery to deliver babies