Noun

(en noun)

A length of some object.

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

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(label) A portion.

# A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.

# (label) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

# (label) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.

(label) A portion.

# (label) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

# (label) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

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In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

# (label) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.

(label) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

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(label) An Ethernet bus.

(label) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

(label) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.

Noun

(en noun)

A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

* 1887 July, (w), '', in (Popular Science Monthly) , Volume 31,

Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.

* 1916 , (James Joyce), , Chapter III,

A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohort of angels fall from their glory.

* 1919 , (Albert Payson Terhune), , Chapter VI: Lost!,

A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.

(statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.

The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.

(military, history) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.

Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.

* 1900 , , 5.20,

But he lost the whole of his first cohort' and the centurion of the first line, a man of high rank in his own class, Asinius Dento, and the other centurions of the same ' cohort , as well as a military tribune, Sext. Lucilius, son of T. Gavius Caepio, a man of wealth, and high position.

* 1910 , (Arthur Conan Doyle)'', '' ,

But here it is as clear as words can make it: 'Bring every man of the Legions by forced marches to the help of the Empire. Leave not a cohort in Britain.' These are my orders.

* 1913 , '', article in ''(Catholic Encyclopedia) ,

The cohort in which he was centurion was probably the Cohors II Italica civium Romanorum , which a recently discovered inscription proves to have been stationed in Syria before A.D. 69.

An accomplice; abettor; associate.

He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts , as well as the source of the information.

Any band or body of warriors.

* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost

With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.

(taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.

A colleague.