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Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn.
A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
An act or instance of cutting.
A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 59:
Japan and China also produced Noah's arks, where Noah was known as Fohi. They were of wood and beautifully decorated, the animals being bright in color and usually flat in section and fixed to flat stands.
(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
(generalizing the topology sense in a different way,sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
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To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
(UK,Australia,New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, →ISBN, page 45:
Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
a.2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second edition, Routledge, published 2000, →ISBN, page xiv:
The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, →ISBN, page 5:
After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]
