Section is a common English word with multiple meanings:
1. A distinct part or subdivision of something, like a section of a book or newspaper
2. A particular area of a country, community, etc.
3. In law, a distinct numbered subdivision of a legal document
4. In geometry, the shape resulting from cutting a solid by a plane
5. In music, a group of instruments of the same class
6. In surgery, the act of cutting or separating tissue