Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
chapter (section of a book). - adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
chapter (branch of an organisation).
Etymologies
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chapter + -like
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For one thing, although this book is divided into chapterlike sections, they are not labelled as "chapters"; and in the table of contents these sections are displayed not in a single orderly column but in a somewhat irregular grid, with vertical and horizontal rows of thumbnail images (twelve in total, each representing a section of text) intended to convey the nonlinear yet interconnected quality of the book as a whole.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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