Inbooks anddocuments, asection is a subdivision, especially of achapter.[1][2]
Infiction, sections often representscenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called ascene break.[3] Scene breaks represent gaps in story time that do not correspond to discourse time, and thus reveal thestory-discourse distinction.[4]
Some documents, especially legal documents, may have numbered sections, such asSection Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms orInternal Revenue Code section 183. Section identifiers may have both uppercase and lowercase letters.[5]
The dotted-decimal section-numbering scheme commonly used in scientific and technical documents[6] is defined by International StandardISO 2145.[7]
The<section> tag may be used insemantic HTML to mark part of a webpage as a section.[8]
