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Sectioning

To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

📖 Definitions of "Sectioning"

verb
  1. 1

    To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

  2. 2

    To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.

  3. 3

    To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

  4. 4

    Medical To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

noun
  1. 1

    A division into sections.

  2. 2

    (mental health) An instance of a person being sectioned.

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