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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... Caesarian section See under caesar . Golden section See under golden...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6 ed.)
...section The plane figure obtained when a surface or solid is intersected by a plane. If the figure has an axis of symmetry and the plane is perpendicular to the axis, then it is a cross section. The sections of a (double) cone are the conics...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Te] The vertical side wall of an excavation trench, or standing vertical face cutting through selected deposits or features within an excavation trench, to allow the study and recording of stratigraphic sequences. Such faces are frequently drawn ( section drawing ) and photographed. Attempts have also been made to take casts or peels of standing sections for future...
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The Oxford Companion to Architecture
... The internal vertical arrangement of a building, or a drawing of the same made as if an imaginary perpendicular cut were taken through a building to reveal its interior and profile. A longitudinal section is a vertical cut through the length of a building, a transverse or cross section is a vertical cut through the width or breadth of a building. The section of the choir of Reims cathedral showing the flying buttress system in Villard de Honnecourt ’s book of drawings ( c .1225–35 ) (f.32r, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) is the earliest extant...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... n. 1 a specified military unit: a camouflage section was added to the army. 2 a subdivision of an army platoon. 3 a measure of land, equal to one square mile. 4 a particular district of a...
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A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... vb. To issue an order for the compulsory admission of a patient with a mental disorder to a psychiatric hospital for assessment and treatment under the appropriate section of the Mental Health Act...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... 1. A unit of work, e.g. a bay of concrete or an area of construction. 2. A group of...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... Surface or portion obtained by a cut made through a structure or any part of a structure to reveal its profile, and/or interior. It may therefore show the outline of a moulding , and a drawing of an imaginary vertical cut through a building will show the elevations of the walls of internal rooms, the convention being that all beyond the plane made by the intersection of the section is depicted in elevation. A plan is therefore a section, the section-plane being horizontal, and shows the floors in...
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A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
... area . North America The standard module of division of the vast Western lands upon survey for settlement, usually 1 mile square and bounded by the cardinal directions N, E, S, and W (so not precisely 1 mile along north and south perimeters), and embedding 1-chain-wide allowances for several roads, varying the assignable area from the nominal 640 acres. Settlement was originally on the basis of a quarter-section per family, but soon proved markedly inadequate to support a family in less-favoured regions. Ontario and some other districts had bigger...
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A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
... [ sek -shŏn] 1. n. ( in surgery ) the act of cutting (the cut or division made is also called a section). 2. n. ( in imaging ) a three-dimensional reconstruction of a body scan obtained by computerized tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. 3. n. ( in microscopy ) a thin slice of the specimen to be examined under a microscope. 4. vb. to issue an order for the compulsory admission of a patient to a psychiatric hospital for assessment and/or treatment under the appropriate section of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by the Mental...
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Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
... 1. n. (in surgery) the act of cutting (the cut or division made is also called a section). For example, an abdominal section is performed for surgical exploration of the abdomen ( see laparotomy ). A transverse section is a cut made at right angles to a structure’s long axis. See also Caesarean section . 2. n. (in imaging) a three-dimensional reconstruction of body scans obtained by computerized tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. These are reconstituted as transverse, sagittal, and coronal plane sections. 3. n. (in...
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Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...section A subdivision or clause in a document, in particular a statute. A section may be subdivided into subsections and paragraphs . Most often abbreviated to ‘s’. Generally called ‘Article’ in international treaties and civil law...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...section n . A cutting through a horizontal plane . Compare coronal section , sagittal section , transverse section...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...section n. A cutting through a coronal plane . Also called a frontal section . Compare horizontal section , sagittal section , transverse section...
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A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
...sagittal section A cross-section through the median vertical longitudinal...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...section A general term used to refer to universal sections...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...section n. Another name for the midsagittal section...
frontal section n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...section n. Another name for a coronal section...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...section A steel section manufactured to a standard size. A universal beam is an I -section and a universal column is an H-section...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...section ( I-beam ) A rolled steel section with a cross-section in the shape of an ‘I’. See also universal section...
