Phrase Hound found 33 phrases and 23 compound words that contain sections. The most common are listed below. Open sections in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 33
- cross sectionsplural of cross section: A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis.
- C-sectionsplural of C-section: Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.
- critical sectionsplural of critical section: A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.
- thin sectionsplural of thin section: A thin, optically flat sliver of a material, especially a rock or mineral, that can be used in microscopy.
- block sectionsplural of block section: In railway signalling, a section of track on which, in normal circumstances, only one train is allowed at one time.
- channel sectionsPlural of channel section: A length of steel or aluminium with a C-shaped or U-shaped cross-section.
- comment sectionsplural of comment section: The section of a website or social media where users can post comments.
- dead sectionsplural of dead section: Part of a neutral section.
- file sectionsplural of file section: The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of the logical records associated with external files to be accessed by the progrem
- string sectionsplural of string section: Synonym of string (“the stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra”).
- T-sectionsplural of T-section: A flat-bottomed rail used in North-America.
- time sectionsplural of time section: A diagram whose two coordinates are time and distance, usually height.
- x-sectionsplural of x-section: A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis.
- Z sectionsPlural of Z section: A length of steel or aluminium with a Z-shaped cross-section.
- configuration sectionsplural of configuration section: The part of the environment division of a COBOL program that specifies the computer that the compiled code is to run on, and hence the instruction set that the compiler should use.
- quarter-sectionsplural of quarter-section: A square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section.
- radar cross sectionsplural of radar cross section: A measure of the detectability of an object by radar.
- cesarean sectionsplural of cesarean section: Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.
- conic sectionsplural of conic section: Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.
- Caesarean sectionsplural of Caesarean section: Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.
- brass sectionsplural of brass section: The part of an orchestra formed by brass instruments.
- tee-sectionsplural of tee-section: Alternative form of T-section (length of metal with a T-shaped cross section).
- neutral sectionsplural of neutral section: A dead section of overhead line for supplying power to trains between two live sections, used to separate two power supplies, different phases and supply voltages.
- input-output sectionsplural of input-output section: The part of the environment division of a COBOL program that specifies the symbolic names of external files accessed by the program
- time cross sectionsplural of time cross section: A diagram whose two coordinates are time and distance, usually height.
Compound words 23
- subsectionsplural of subsection: A defined part of a section.
- intersectionsplural of intersection: The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- dissectionsplural of dissection: The act of dissecting.
- cryosectionsplural of cryosection: To section biological tissue using a cryostat.
- ecosectionsplural of ecosection: A part of an ecoregion that shows only minor physiographic, macroclimatic or oceanographic variations
- eigensectionsplural of eigensection: A homogenous section whose associated Eulerian family diagonalizes a given element of a Lie algebra.
- hemisectionsplural of hemisection: A division along the mesial plane or median plane.
- histosectionsplural of histosection: A section of tissue for histological examination
- hypersectionsplural of hypersection: Excessive secretion.
- infrasectionsplural of infrasection: a taxon below the rank of section