# Section

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**Section**, **Sectioning**, or **Sectioned** may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Books

- [Section (bookbinding)](/source/Section_(bookbinding)), a group of sheets, folded in the middle, bound into the binding together
- [Section (typography)](/source/Section_(typography)), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents - [Section sign](/source/Section_sign) (§), typographical characters

### Film, TV, video games

- [*The Outpost* (1995 film)](/source/The_Outpost_(1995_film)), also known as *The Section*
- ["Sectioning" (*Peep Show*)](/source/Sectioning_(Peep_Show)), a 2005 television episode
- David "Section" Mason, a fictional character in *[Call of Duty: Black Ops II](/source/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II)*

### Music

- Section, an instrumental group within an [orchestra](/source/Orchestra#Organization)
- [The Section (band)](/source/The_Section_(band)), a 1970s American instrumental rock band
- [Section (music)](/source/Section_(music)), a complete, but not independent, musical idea
- "Section", a song by 2 Chainz from the 2016 album *[ColleGrove](/source/ColleGrove)*

## Organisations

- [Section (Alpine club)](/source/Section_(Alpine_club))
- [Section (military unit)](/source/Section_(military_unit))
- [Section (Scouting)](/source/Section_(Scouting))

## Science, technology and mathematics

### Science

- [Histological section](/source/Histological_section), a thin slice of tissue used for microscopic examination, achieved by sectioning
- [Section (archaeology)](/source/Section_(archaeology)), a view in part of the archaeological sequence showing it in the vertical plane
- [Section (taxonomy)](/source/Section_(taxonomy)), a taxonomic rank that is applied differently between botany and zoology - [Section (botany)](/source/Section_(botany))
- [Section (geology)](/source/Section_(geology)), a diagram representing geologic features intersecting a vertical plane

### Mathematics

- [Conic section](/source/Conic_section), intersection of a cone and a plane
- [Section (category theory)](/source/Section_(category_theory)), a right inverse of some morphism - [Section (fiber bundle)](/source/Section_(fiber_bundle)), in topology - Part of a [sheaf (mathematics)](/source/Sheaf_(mathematics))
- [Section (group theory)](/source/Section_(group_theory)), a quotient object of a subobject

### Other uses in science and technology

- <section>, an [HTML5](/source/HTML5) element
- [Sectioning (car)](/source/Sectioning_(car)), a customization of hot rod cars

## Surveying

- [Section (United States land surveying)](/source/Section_(United_States_land_surveying)), an area nominally one square mile
- Section, an area of one square mile in [Dominion Land Survey](/source/Dominion_Land_Survey#Section), Western Canada
- Section, part of the [Alberta Township System](/source/Alberta_Township_System)

## Other uses

- [Section (rail transport)](/source/Section_(rail_transport)), a portion of railway line or a portion of a train
- [Section, Alabama](/source/Section,_Alabama), a town in the United States
- [Sectioning](/source/Sectioning), involuntary commitment for severe mental illness

## See also

- [Caesarean section](/source/Caesarean_section), or C-section, the use of surgery to deliver babies
- [Cross section (disambiguation)](/source/Cross_section_(disambiguation))
- [Division (disambiguation)](/source/Division_(disambiguation))
- [Part (disambiguation)](/source/Part_(disambiguation))
- [Sectional (disambiguation)](/source/Sectional_(disambiguation))
- [Sector (disambiguation)](/source/Sector_(disambiguation))
- [Segment (disambiguation)](/source/Segment_(disambiguation))

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