1 (part) [of pipeline, road] tramo; (m) The oil spill in Alaska was due to a damaged section of pipeline
[of self-assembly item] pieza; (f) parte; (f) I had nearly assembled the bookcase when I saw I had two sections left over
[of orange etc] gajo; (m) [of book, text] parte; (f) [of code, law] artículo; (m) [of document, report] apartado; (m) punto; (m) The report contains a section on how to approach the Spanish market The lawyer referred to a section in the 1938 Food and Drugs Act There was a dispute over a section of the will dealing with the house and contents ...Section 5, Appendix 2A
[of orchestra] sección; (f) the orchestra is composed of 4 main sections the brass/string/percussion/woodwind section She works in the company's personnel section
[of country] región; (f) [of community, opinion] sector; (m) A substantial section of the [community] lives at subsistence level
[of town] (Britain) sector; (m) zona; (f) Police closed off a busy section of London's West End.
(US) (district) barrio; (m) the Washington Heights section of Manhattan
the ship was transported in sections el barco fue trasladado por partes; the bookcase comes in sections la estantería viene desmontada (en piezas partes);or the first-class section of the train los vagones de primera clase del tren; passports section sección de pasaportes; (f) the sports/finance section [of newspaper] la sección de deportes/economía; in all sections of the public en todos los sectores del público
The ship was transported in sections and built in a hangar
2 (cut) (in diagram, dissection) sección; (f) corte; (m) cross section sección transversal; (f) the research was compiled using a cross section of the British population el estudió se realizó utilizando un sector representativo de la población británica
The illustration on page 84 is a section of the human brain They found the oil by looking at maps and \geological sections
