Section

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Section may refer to:

• Section (botany)
• Section (music)
• Archaeological section
• Histological section, a thin slice of tissue used for microscopic examination
• Section, an instrumental group within an orchestra
• Memory segment, a division of computer memory
• Stratigraphic section, layers of rocks
• Caesarean section, surgical technique to facilitate child birth
• Pullman section, a type of sleeping car accommodation
• Sectioning, also known outside the United Kingdom as involuntary commitment

Writing

• Section (typography), a division of a chapter or document
  • Section sign (§), in typography
• Section (bookbinding), papers folded during bookbinding

Mathematics

• Section (category theory), also in homological algebra, and including:
  • Section (fiber bundle), in topology
  • Part of a sheaf (mathematics)
• Section (group theory)

Land area

• Section (United States land surveying) – (640 acres)
• Section of a Dominion Land Survey (Western Canada)
• Section as a part of the Alberta Township System
• Forest section, a division of a forest range in India

Social organisations

• Section (Alpine club)
• Section (military unit)
• Section (Scouting)
• Section One, a fictional elite, top-secret counter-terrorist organization in the television series La Femme Nikita

Places

• Section, Alabama, a town in the United States

See also

• Cross section (disambiguation)
• Division (disambiguation)
• Part (disambiguation)
• Segment (disambiguation)