Section

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Section may refer to:

• Section (bookbinding), papers folded during bookbinding
• Section (botany)
• Section (category theory), also in homological algebra, and including:
  • Section (fiber bundle), in topology
  • Part of a sheaf (mathematics)
• Section (group theory)
• Section (military unit)
• Section (music)
• Section (Scouting)
• Section (United States land surveying) - (640 acres)
• Section of a Dominion Land Survey (Western Canada)
• Section as a part of the Alberta Township System
• Section as a part of the Public Land Survey System (US)
• Section, Alabama, a town in the United States
• Section sign (§), in typography
• Archaeological section
• Caesarean section, method of child birth
• Pullman section, a type of sleeping car accommodation
• Histological section, a thin slice of tissue used for microscopic examination
• Statigraphic section, layers of rocks
• Section, a division of a forest range in India
• Section, an instrumental group within an orchestra
• Involuntary commitment, known in the United Kingdom as sectioning
• A provision in legislation by national, supra-national or intra-national bodies

[edit] See also

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

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