ˈsubsection
[f. sub- 7 + section.]
A division of a section.
| 1621 Burton (title) The Anatomy of Melancholy,..in Three Maine Partitions, with their seuerall Sections, Members, and Svbsections. Ibid. i. i. ii. ix, In the precedent Subsections, I haue anatomised those inferiour Faculties of the Soule. 1841 De Quincey Style Wks. 1859 XI. 228 Others who bring an occasional acuteness..to this or that sub⁓section of their duty. 1863 C. C. Blake in Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. (1865) III. i. 5 A valuable..paper was read in subsection D [of the British Association], by Dr. Embleton. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 242/1 The behaviour of the lava as it issues and flows down the volcanic cones will be described in the next sub-section. 1885 Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 70 §8 Sub⁓section one of section fifteen of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883. |
b. Nat. Hist. A subordinate division of a section or group.
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 414 In this subsection the Diptera, Libellulina and Mantidæ will find their place. 1826 [see suborder 1]. 1840 Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 415 Latreille divides this section [sc. Trigona] into sub-sections. |
c. Milit. (See quot.)
| 1910 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 11) II. 690/1 Each section [of a battery]..consists of two sub-sections, each comprising one gun and its wagons, men and horses. |
Hence ˈsubsectioned, divided into subsections.
| 1820 Keats Cap & Bells xi, With special strictures on the horrid crime, (Section'd and subsection'd with learning sage). |