1. a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately; - Example: "a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course" [syn: section, discussion section]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
discussion section
n 1: a small class of students who are part of a larger course
but are taught separately; "a graduate student taught
sections for the professor's lecture course" [syn:
section, discussion section]