🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Sektion

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Sektion

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dissection/daɪˈsɛkʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Sektion des Organs zeigte die Ursache der Erkrankung."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of dissecting a body or plant to study its internal parts.

    "The biology class performed a dissection of a frog."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Latin dissectio(n-), from the verb dissecare 'to cut to pieces' (from dis- 'apart' + secare 'to cut').

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