chapter
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Middle English chapiter < Old French chapitre < Latin capitulum (“‘a chapter of a book, in ML. also a synod or council’”), diminutive of caput (“‘a head’”); see chapiter and capital, which are doublets of chapter.
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chapter (plural chapters)
- One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
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section in a book
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an administrative division of an organization
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[edit] External links
- chapter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- chapter in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
