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Literary notes about sections (AI summary)

The word “sections” is employed in literature to mark distinct subdivisions within a larger whole, whether that refers to parts of a work, portions of a machine, segments of a community, or divisions of an argument. In botanical and taxonomic writings, it can describe subordinate classifications within a species, as in the grouping of C. pepo varieties [1]. In technical contexts, “sections” denote specific parts of machinery or structural components, seen in detailed descriptions of motor parts and architectural elements [2, 3, 4]. Legal and scholarly texts often refer to numbered sections to organize complex materials or to facilitate precise citation, an approach used in works discussing common law and constitutional frameworks [5, 6, 7, 8]. Additionally, the term is extended metaphorically in discussions of social or geographical segments, where different “sections” of a community or territory are highlighted [9, 10, 11]. This varied usage underscores the flexibility of “sections” in literature as a tool for both structural clarity and thematic nuance.
  1. The forms of C. pepo are classed by Naudin under seven sections, each including subordinate varieties.
    — from The King James Version of the Bible
  2. —End and cross sections of a two-cylinder motor.
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams
  3. The rails of each section are all bonded together so as to be in metallic contact, and each section is insulated from the two neighbouring sections.
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams
  4. Above this, the upper sections are to be laid out, midway between (the lower sections), with alternating passage-ways.
    — from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
  5. Sal., Sections 15, 23-25, tr.
    — from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  6. Sections 202-207.
    — from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  7. c. 37); Littleton, Sections 237-240, 588, 589; 3 Bl. Comm. 170; 3 Cruise, Dig., tit. xxviii., Rents, ch. 2, Section 34.
    — from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  8. Sections 75, 76; D. 9. 4. 2, Section 1.
    — from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  9. The Dinner Hour In America the dinner hour is not a fixture, since it varies in various sections of the country.
    — from Etiquette by Emily Post
  10. If the Jews were persecuted in a less enlightened age, so were many other sections of the community.
    — from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster
  11. Indeed, nearly all of the emigrants had come from these sections.
    — from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States by George T. Flom

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