Complement and Section

noun

• A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction.
• A complete number or quantity.
  • usage: "a full complement"
• Number needed to make up a whole force.
  • usage: "a full complement of workers"
  • synonyms: full complement
• Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.
  • usage: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
  • synonyms: accompaniment
• One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response.
• Either of two parts that mutually complete each other.

verb

• Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to.
  • usage: "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

• (v.t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
• (v.t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
• (v.t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
• (v.t.) To compliment.
• (v.t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
• (v.t.) A compliment.
• (v.t.) Full quantity, number or amount; a complete set; completeness.
• (v.t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
• (v.t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
• (v.t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency or to complete a symmetrical whole.

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.