Basic and Section

noun

• A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use.
• Usually plural. ( a necessary commodity for which demand is constant)
  • synonyms: staple

adjective

• Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
  • usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
  • usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
  • synonyms: canonic, canonical
• Serving as a base or starting point.
  • usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
  • synonyms: introductory
• Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

• (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• (a.) Having the base in excess or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

Basic is a masculine given name

• Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
• Name Origin: Greek

noun

• A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical. )
  • usage: "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section"
  • synonyms: subdivision
• A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope.
  • usage: "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue"
• A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people.
  • usage: "no section of the nation is more ardent than the South"; "there are three synagogues in the Jewish section"
• One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
  • usage: "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"
  • synonyms: segment
• A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon.
• One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.
  • usage: "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
  • synonyms: part, division
• A land unit equal to 1 square mile.
• Geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid.
  • synonyms: plane section
• A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately.
  • usage: "a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course"
  • synonyms: discussion section
• A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class.
• A small army unit usually having a special function.
• A specialized division of a large organization.
  • usage: "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
  • synonyms: department
• A segment of a citrus fruit.
  • usage: "he ate a section of the orange"
• The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation.
  • synonyms: incision, surgical incision

verb

• Divide into segments.
  • usage: "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
  • synonyms: segment

• (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
• (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
• (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines or of a people considered as distinct.
• (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet or to two superficies which meet or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
• (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
• (n.) The act of cutting or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
• (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
• (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
• (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

Identifies the third highest level in the formal City organization in which a specific activity is carried out; a division may consist of several' Section's.

(DoD) An area in a warehouse extending from one wall to the next; usually the largest subdivision of one floor.
(DoD) A tactical unit of the Army and Marine Corps. A section is smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad. In some organizations the section, rather than the squad, is the basic tactical unit.
(DoD) A subdivision of an office, installation, territory, works, or organization; especially a major subdivision of a staff.
(DoD) As applied to ships or naval aircraft, a tactical subdivision of a division. It is normally one-half of a division in the case of ships, and two aircraft in the case of aircraft.