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  2. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The legal description of a tract of land under the PLSS includes the name of the state, name of the county, township number, range number, section number, and portion of a section. Sections are customarily surveyed into smaller squares by repeated halving and quartering. A quarter section is 160 acres (65 ha) and a "quarter-quarter section" is ...

  3. Section sign - Wikipedia

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    The section sign ( ยง) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1] It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. [2] [3] In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German ...

  4. 16 Divisions - Wikipedia

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    The 16 Divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat, is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada. In 2004, MasterFormat was updated and expanded to 50 Divisions. [1]

  5. Section (military unit) - Wikipedia

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    A section is a military sub-subunit. It usually consists of between 6 and 20 personnel. NATO and U.S. doctrine define a section as an organization "larger than a squad, but smaller than a platoon ." [1] [2] [3] As such, two or more sections usually make up an army platoon or an air force flight.

  6. Help:Section - Wikipedia

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    Section numbering is relative to the part that is edited, so on the relative top level there is always just number 1, relative subsections all have numbers starting with 1: 1.1., 1.2, etc.; e.g., when editing subsection 3.2, sub-subsection 3.2.4 is numbered 1.4.

  7. 50 Divisions - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 24 November 2023, at 15:05 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.

  8. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    Lot and block survey system. A contemporary plat map used in the lot and block system. The lot and block survey system is a method used in the United States and Canada to locate and identify land, particularly for lots in densely populated metropolitan areas, suburban areas and exurbs. It is sometimes referred to as the recorded plat survey ...

  9. Page numbering - Wikipedia

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    When numbering by chapter, page "3-2" is the second page of chapter 3, page "A-3" is the third page of Appendix A. Larger newspapers have page "numbers" that begin with a letter -- page "B3" is the third page of the second section. Unique numbering schemes