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component
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comp?n?ns, comp?n?ntis, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /k?m?po?n?nt/
Noun
component (plural components)
- A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
Derived terms
- componentless
- per-component
Translations
Adjective
component (not comparable)
- Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
- Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.
Catalan
Verb
component
- present participle of compondre
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English component or German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?m.po??n?nt/
- Hyphenation: com?po?nent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
component m (plural componenten, diminutive componentje n)
- component
Synonyms
- onderdeel
Derived terms
- tweecomponentenlijm
Related terms
- componeren
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: komponen
Latin
Verb
component
- third-person plural future active indicative of compon?
Romanian
Alternative forms
- (component): component?
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian componente, German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kom.po?nent/
Noun
component n (plural componente)
- component
Declension
Noun
component m (plural componen?i, feminine equivalent component?)
- member of a team or other group
Declension
Adjective
component m or n (feminine singular component?, masculine plural componen?i, feminine and neuter plural componente)
- component
Declension
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section
- See Wiktionary:Entry layout for the Wiktionary style guide for sections
English
Etymology
From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”). More at saw.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: s?k?sh?n, IPA(key): /?s?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: sec?tion
Noun
section (plural sections)
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- 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).
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
- (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (category theory) A right inverse.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
- (US, historical) 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.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
Synonyms
- (botany, zoology): sectio
- cutting, slice, snippet
- division, part, slice, piece
- volume
Antonyms
- whole
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
- (aviation): waterline, buttock line
Derived terms
- bisection
- dissection
- sectionman
- trisection
Related terms
Translations
Verb
section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned) (transitive)
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (Britain) 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.
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:
- Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
- a. 2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ?ISBN, page xiv:
- The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
- 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, ?ISBN, page 5:
- After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]
- Synonym: (Australia) schedule
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:
- (medical): To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
- "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."
- 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:
- You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."
- 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
Translations
Further reading
- section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- section in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- section at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- ecotins, noetics, notices
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin secti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?k.sj??/
Noun
section f (plural sections)
- section (all meanings)
Further reading
- “section” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- notices
Interlingua
Etymology
From secar +? -ion, alternatively borrowed from Latin secti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sek?ti?on/
Noun
section (plural sectiones)
- (act of) cutting
- (surgery) section (all meanings)
- section
- separation by cutting
- portion, division, subdivision
- (natural history, military, etc.) section
- (geometry, drawing, etc.) section
Derived terms
- dissection
- intersection
- resection
- trisection
- vivisection
- sectionar
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