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chapter | American Dictionary

chapter
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtʃæp·tər/

chapternoun[C] (BOOK PART)

any of the separate parts into which a book or other piece of text is divided, usually numbered or given a title

chapternoun[C] (PERIOD)

a period that is part of a larger amount of time during which something happens:
The Great Depression was a tragic chapter in the history of the nation.

chapternoun[C] (SOCIETY)

a local division of a larger organization:
The local chapter of the League of Women Voters meets at the library.

chapter | Business English

chapter
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈtʃæptər/us
a local group of members who belong to a larger organization:
the New York chapter of the Public Relations Society of America
one of the sections of a large text such as a book, business report, or legal document:
Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code

Examples of chapter

chapter
It is commendable that the author draws on qualitative and quantitative measures throughout these chapters.
The chapters illustrate a range of methods, although there is an overall emphasis in favour of qualitative approaches.
The chapter on anxiety, communication and safety in performance again draws on all the psychological concepts previously discussed.
This replaces an accumulated literature of patterns corresponding to words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and books that encapsulates meaning from human experience and life.
The experiences and views of homeless people interviewed for the study are reported in chapter seven.
The extensive chapter on abolition, for example, skims over modes of liberation, the roles of families and post-liberation livelihoods.
The chapter on plant responses to herbicides reminds the reader that stresses can be anthropogenic.
The importance of epistatic modifiers was also stressed in chapters six and seven that deal with speculation and mimicry, respectively.
The final chapter gives an inspiring overview of the complex problems surrounding market and non-market economic organisation.
The chapter on data processing addresses these issues with a detailed discussion of the issues surrounding spot quantitation and data normalization.
The second part of the book contains only two chapters, each dealing with more technical aspects of the production process.
Some chapters remain mired in highly technical language, while others fail to transcend the limited social, cultural contexts of their studies.
This chapter includes a significant amount of technical information that may be beyond the nonspecialist audience.
In every chapter the narrative is given colour by local case studies from urban and rural congregations, brief vignettes of church leaders and telling incidents.
This chapter is particularly interesting for the detailed case studies that follow, which illustrate the changes that children's phonological systems undergo during treatment.
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chapter

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alternating chapters
The effect of this stylistic device is that the alternating chapters enlighten each other.
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