Noun

(en noun)

A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

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A part of a document.

An act or instance of cutting.

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

# (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

(senseid) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

(category theory) A right inverse.

(NZ) A piece of residential land usually a quarter of an acre in size; a plot.

(label) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Noun

(lb) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family' perhaps at a critical moment, when the ' family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

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(lb) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

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(lb) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

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A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

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*:The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally.

(lb) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

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A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

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A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}