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In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter.^[1][2]

In fiction, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called a scene break.^[3] Scene breaks represent gaps in story time that do not correspond to discourse time, and thus reveal the story-discourse distinction.^[4]

In law, sections are divisions of legislation that may be deeply nested to as little as single sentences.^[5]

Some documents, especially legal documents, may have numbered sections, such as Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or Internal Revenue Code section 183.^[5] The symbol § (section sign) prefixed to a number indicates that it is the number of a section detailed elsewhere.^[6]

The dotted-decimal section-numbering scheme commonly used in scientific and technical documents is defined by International Standard ISO 2145.^[7][8]

The <section> tag may be used in semantic HTML to mark part of a webpage as a section.^[9]

The <hr/> element originally represented a page-width horizontal rule, and now has the semantics of a "paragraph-level thematic break" which may be rendered in various ways.^[10] In the Wikipedia markup language, it is represented as four hyphens ---- on their own line and renders like this:

previous section

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following section

• Asterism – Triangular symbol of three asterisks (⁂) sometimes used to indicate a section break in literature
• Dinkus – Typographic device ( * * * ) to indicate a change
• Fleuron (typography) – Printer's ornamental flourish (for example, ❦)
• Paragraph – Self-contained unit of discourse in writing
• Paragraphos – Ancient Greek paragraph markers
• Section (bookbinding) – Group of printed leaves, folded in the middle and bound together into a book binding