Synonyms of the word

subsection

• n. A defined part of a section.
• n. A subpart of a legal document such as law.
• n. (taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above order.
• n. (taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below the section, but above the species.

section

• n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• n. A part of a document.
• n. An act or instance of cutting.
• n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• n. (category theory) A right inverse.
• n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

segment

• n. A length of some object.
• n. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section;…
• n. (mathematics) A portion.
• n. (sciences) A portion.
• n. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
• n. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
• n. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular…
• n. (travel) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked…
• v. To divide into segments or sections.

subdivision

• n. (countable, uncountable) a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
• n. (countable) such a piece that has been divided.
• n. (countable) a parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
• n. (countable) a group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
• v. to separate something into smaller pieces.