SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

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SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut) , the act of cutting or a

part

PART

cut off, thus used of any division of a subject, as the paragraph of a book, article,

statute

STATUTE

, &c., of a division of land, of a town, &c., or a

separate

SEPARATE

class of a community or race; the

term

TERM

is more particularly applied to a thin slice of any substance prepared for examination by the microscope (see MICROTOMY) or to a diagram of any structure showing the internal plan as if exposed by the cutting off of an external surface; thus, in architecture, a section is a drawing of a building cut in half, so as to show the relative height of the floors, the depth of the

foundation

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

and its footings, the framing of the roof, if in timber or iron, or the construction of the vault or

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo,
cathedral
- CATHEDRAL
)

, if in masonry. The

term

TERM

is also applied to the details of the structure, such as the cornice and the various mouldings showing their profile.

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