transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃæptə(r) ]
( chapters)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A chapter is one of the parts that a book is divided into. Each chapter has a number, and sometimes a title.
Chromium supplements were used successfully in the treatment of diabetes (see Chapter 4)...
I took the title of this chapter from one of my favorite books.
N-COUNT : also N num
2.
A chapter in someone’s life or in history is a period of time during which a major event or series of related events takes place. ( WRITTEN )
This had been a particularly difficult chapter in Lebanon’s recent history.
...one of the most dramatic chapters of recent British politics.
N-COUNT : supp N , oft N in n , adj N