subsection

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ section.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

subsection (plural subsections)

1. A defined part of a section.
   • 2005, Leanne Newson, Jules Aldous, The Legal Maze: VCE Units 1 and 2, page 445:

     To them, just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The culture has its own subsections […]

2. (law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.

   Coordinate term: subparagraph

   • 1994, Congress of the United States, United States Statutes at Large, volume 108, part 4:

     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 identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specifically states that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).

   • 2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, volume 166, number 1, page 37:

     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.

3. (taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
4. (taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below section and above species.

Derived terms

• subsubsection

Translations

Defined part of a section

• Afrikaans: subartikel
• French: sous-section (fr) f
• German: Unterabschnitt m, Unterabteilung f, Untersektion f, Teilstrecke (de) f (road), Streckenteil m (of a line)
• Irish: fo-alt m
• Italian: sottosezione f, (law) comma (it) m
• Manx: fo-olt m
• Romanian: subsecțiune f
• Russian: подсекция (ru) (podsekcija), подраздел (ru) (podrazdel)
• Swedish: underavdelning (sv) c
• Turkish: alt bölüm (tr), alt kesim

Subsection of a legal document such as law

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 款 (zh) (kuǎn)

• French:

  See also: article (fr), alinéa (fr), sous-alinéa

  (Canada): paragraphe (fr)

• Irish: fo-alt m
• Italian: comma (it)
• Japanese: 項 (ja) (kō)
• Manx: fo-olt m

Verb

subsection (third-person singular simple present subsections, present participle subsectioning, simple past and past participle subsectioned)

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