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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)

1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
   1. (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

3. A part of a document.
4. An act or instance of cutting.
5. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
   1. (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
6. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
   1. (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
7. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
9. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
10. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
11. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
12. (category theory) A right inverse.
13. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
14. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
15. (US, historical) Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
16. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
17. (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)

1. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
2. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
3. (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

4. (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."

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)

1. 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)

1. (act of) cutting
2. (surgery) section (all meanings)
3. section
   1. separation by cutting
   2. portion, division, subdivision
   3. (natural history, military, etc.) section
4. (geometry, drawing, etc.) section

Derived terms

• dissection
• intersection
• resection
• trisection
• vivisection
• sectionar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin seri?s, from serere (“to join together, bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.?i?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??iz/, /?si?iz/
• Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres

Noun

series (plural series)

1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

   Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence

2. (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

   Synonyms: show, program

3. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i}}}$ of a given sequence a_i.

4. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

5. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
7. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
8. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
9. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

Synonyms

• serie (obsolete)

Derived terms

• in series
• (media, television) TV series
• (electrical) series-wound

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shir?zu)

Translations

Adjective

series (not comparable)

1. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

   Antonym: parallel

Further reading

• series in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• series in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• series at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• reises, ressie, seiser

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s???i.?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se??i.es/

Verb

series

1. second-person singular conditional form of ser

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

series

1. Plural form of serie

Interlingua

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Latin

Etymology

From ser? (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.e?s/, [?s???ie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.es/, [?s???i?s]

Noun

seri?s f (genitive seri??); fifth declension

1. a row
2. a succession
3. a series
4. a chain

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

series

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of seriar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of seriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?jes/, [?se.?jes]

Etymology 1

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Etymology 2

Verb

series

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of seriar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of seriar.

Swedish

Noun

series

1. indefinite genitive singular of serie