DISCUSSION SECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discussion section mean? 

• DISCUSSION SECTION (noun)
  The noun DISCUSSION SECTION has 1 sense:

1. a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately

  Familiarity information: DISCUSSION SECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCUSSION SECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

discussion section; section

Context example:

a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course

Hypernyms ("discussion section" is a kind of...):

class; course; form; grade (a body of students who are taught together)