subsection

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ section

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

subsection (plural subsections)

A defined part of a section.
(law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.
Coordinate term: subparagraph
(taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
(taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below section and above species.

Derived terms

subsubsection

Translations

Defined part of a section

Afrikaans: subartikel
French: sous-section (fr) f
German: Unterabschnitt m, Unterabteilung f, Untersektion f, Teilstrecke f (road), Streckenteil m (of a line)
Irish: fo-alt m
Italian: sottosezione f, (law) comma (it) m
Manx: fo-olt m
Romanian: subsecțiune f
Russian: подсекция (ru) (podsekcija), подраздел (ru) (podrazdel)
Swedish: underavdelning (sv) c
Turkish: alt bölüm (tr), alt kesim

Subsection of a legal document such as law

Chinese:
Mandarin: 款 (zh) (kuǎn)
French:
See also: article (fr), alinéa (fr), sous-alinéa

(Canada): paragraphe (fr)
Irish: fo-alt m
Italian: comma (it)
Japanese: 項 (ja) (kō)
Manx: fo-olt m

Verb

subsection (third-person singular simple present subsections, present participle subsectioning, simple past and past participle subsectioned)

To insert subsections (into some text, etc.).

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