Definitions
1.nounA cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2.nounA part, piece, subdivision of anything.
3.nounA part of a document.
4.nounAn act or instance of cutting.
5.nounA cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
6.nounAn incision or the act of making an incision.
7.nounA thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
8.nounA taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
9.nounAn informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
10.nounA group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
11.nounA right inverse.
12.nounA piece of residential land; a plot.
13.nounA one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
14.nounAny of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
15.nounThe symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
16.nounA sequence of rock layers.
17.verbTo cut, divide or separate into pieces.
18.verbTo reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
19.verbTo 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.
20.verbMedical To perform a cesarean section on (someone).