subsectionn.
/ˈsʌbˌsɛkʃn/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌsɛkʃən/ 1. A division of a section, esp. of a document or other text.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > a subdivision
subdivisiona1450
subsection1621
subdichotomy1644
subdivider1654
specie1670
underpart1711
1621 R. Burton (title) The anatomy of melancholy,..in three maine partitions with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections.
a1646 W. Twisse Riches of Gods Love (1653) 171 (heading) Discourse Sect. IV. Which I divide into Three Subsections.
1755 Douglass's Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. (new ed.) I. viii. 471 Perspicuity and distinctness require this article to be divided into subsections.
1840 T. De Quincey Style: No. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 509/1 Others who bring an occasional acuteness..to this or that sub-section of their duty.
1863 C. C. Blake in Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. (1865) 3 i. 5 A valuable..paper was read in subsection D [of the British Association], by Dr. Embleton.
1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 242/1 The behaviour of the lava as it issues and flows down the volcanic cones will be described in the next sub-section.
1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 70 §8 Sub~section one of section fifteen of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883.
1920 Circular (Board of Educ.) No. 1180. 12 Oct. 3 The Board are prepared to consider proposals for making a byelaw under the subsection raising the school leaving age to 15.
1978 R. Butler Against Wind (1979) xi. 169 The ‘horde’, or food-gathering sub-section of the tribe.
2006 E. Cole & S. Ring Insider Threat v. 199 The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) or (b) of this section is..imprisonment.
2. Biology. A subordinate division of a section. Now chiefly Botany, with reference to divisions of large genera; cf. section n. 2c.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > section or sub-section
section1720
subsection1813
subgroup1826
subdivision2000
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Crustacea When this operculum..more nearly resembles a bivalve shell, it [sc. the animal] is arranged under another division or sub-section, denominated ostrachode.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 391 If a subclass end in ata, a suborder might end in ita; a section in ana, a subsection in ena.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 415 Latreille divides this section [sc. Trigona] into sub-sections.
1884 Standard Nat. Hist. II. 276 This last group he also designates as a subsection, Aquatilia, from the genuine aquatic habits of the forms.
1941 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 68 660 The plants known popularly as Pine Barren gentians constitute a natural subsection of the genus Gentiana.
2008 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105 5931/1 The selected species cover all sections of this genus [sc. Rosa], except the Carolinae, which is a small (four species) subsection of the Cinnamomeae.
3. Military (now historical). Usually with hyphen. A subdivision of a gun battery, consisting of a gun and the personnel and equipment associated with it.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > artillery-company > part of
battery1861
subsection1907
1907 R. F. Legge Banning's Admin., Organization, & Equipm. made Easy (ed. 7) vi. 24 In all cases each wagon of the ‘firing battery’ follows its gun. In column of route, when 2 wagons of a sub-section are present, they immediately follow their gun.
1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 690/1 Each section [of a battery]..consists of two sub-sections, each comprising one gun and its wagons, men and horses.
1988 M. Barthorp Brit. Army on Campaign, 1882–1902 16/2 Each sub-section consisted of a sergeant in command, an NCO in charge of the ammunition wagon, three gun-crew, two ammunition numbers, and two reserves, plus six drivers, RHA having an extra three as horse-holders.
2006 W. Olson Gallipoli i. 11 An Australian field-gun battery consisted of four sub-sections, designated A, B, C and D.
Derivatives
ˈsubsectioned adj. divided into subsections.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [adjective] > divided > divided into sections or compartments > into subsections
subsectioneda1821
a1821 J. Keats Cap & Bells xi, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 219 With special strictures on the horrid crime, (Section'd and subsection'd with learning sage).
1988 N. Fabb in M. Everaert et al. Morphology & Modularity 131 This is part of a more general attempt..to examine whether the internal structure of syntactically sub-sectioned words conforms to syntactic principles.
2009 K. Coplin & J. Kaye Pop Tart xviii. 298 Tracing the bead necklace..in circles with her finger, highlighted and magnified in its subsectioned photograph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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