Section

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Section, Sectioning, or Sectioned may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea
Section (typography), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents
- Section sign (§), typographical characters
Section (bookbinding), a group of sheets, folded in the middle, bound into the binding together
The Section (band), a 1970s American instrumental rock band
The Outpost (1995 film), also known as The Section
Section, an instrumental group within an orchestra
"Section", a song by 2 Chainz from the 2016 album ColleGrove
"Sectioning" (Peep Show), a 2005 television episode
David "Section" Mason, a fictional character in Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Organisations

Science, technology and mathematics

Science

Section (archaeology), a view in part of the archaeological sequence showing it in the vertical plane
Section (biology), a taxonomic rank that is applied differently between botany and zoology
- Section (botany)
Histological section, a thin slice of tissue used for microscopic examination, achieved by sectioning

Mathematics

Section (category theory), a right inverse of some morphism
- Section (fiber bundle), in topology
- Part of a sheaf (mathematics)
Section (group theory), a quotient object of a subobject
Conic section, intersection of a cone and a plane

Other uses in science and technology

<section>, an HTML5 markup
Sectioning (car), a customization of hot rod cars

Surveying

Section (United States land surveying), an area nominally one square mile
Section, an area of one square mile in Dominion Land Survey, Western Canada
Section, part of the Alberta Township System

Other uses

Section, Alabama, a town in the United States
Section (rail transport), a portion of railway line or a portion of a train
Sectioning, involuntary commitment for severe mental illness