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The knife you take to a whole, pretending the pieces were always separate.
means A distinct part cut or divided off from a larger whole.
from From Latin sectio, 'a cutting,' built on the verb secare, 'to cut' — the same root that gives you saw, scythe, and segment. Romans used it for the literal act of slicing something apart before English borrowed it for the tidier, paperwork version: a piece defined by where the cut was made, not by any seam nature put there first.
- shared root
- Cousin to sex, as in bisect, not gender
- legal use
- Section 420 made a scam-artist synonym in India
- math twist
- Conic section just means slicing a cone
- military sense
- Smallest army unit, roughly eight to ten soldiers