chapter

noun
chap·ter
/ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/

One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.

Example

“Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.”

Other meanings

A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)

Related words

chapterful
chapterlike
chapterplay
chapterwise
interchapter
microchapter
midchapter
multichapter
subchapter
chapter and verse
chapter house
to the end of the chapter

Example sentences

“All functions considered in this chapter are real.”
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“This book has many chapters.”
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Word history

From Latin "capitulum".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “chapter” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.