sectioning
Speech parts
1. sectioning - Noun
2. sectioning - Verb
Meaning
sectioning
present participle of section
A division into sections.
(UK, New Zealand, Australia, mental health) An instance of a person being sectioned.
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Examples
Documents can be structured using a hierarchy of cells, which allow for outlining and sectioning of a document and support automatic numbering index creation.
Frozen sectioning can also be used to determine if a tumour is malignant when it is found incidentally during surgery on a patient.
Horizontal (also known as transverse or longitudinal) sectioning, cut along the long axis of the tissue, is often used in the evaluation of the hair follicles and pilosebaceous units.
In a pathology laboratory, paraffin wax is used to impregnate tissue prior to sectioning thin samples of tissue.
In biology, specimens can be stained "en bloc" before embedding and also later after sectioning.
It allows sectioning of data to view its dependencies on various factors for different perspectives (using pivot tables and the scenario manager).