subsection

A defined part of a section.

Noun

  1. A defined part of a section.
    • To them, just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The culture has its own subsections […] - 2005, Leanne Newson, Jules Aldous, The Legal Maze: VCE Units 1 and 2, page 445:
    • There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see...
  2. A subpart of a legal document such as law.
    • A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically...
    • In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause. - 2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid...

    Coordinate Terms: subparagraph

  3. An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
  4. A taxonomic rank below section and above species.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English section English subsection From sub- + section.

Forms

subsections

Derived

subsectional subsubsection

Verb

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

Forms

subsections subsectioning subsectioned