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What does chapter mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chapter? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
  2. A section of a social or religious body.
    1. An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
    2. An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
    3. A community of canons or canonesses.
    4. A bishop's council.
    5. An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
    6. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
    7. A chapter house.
  3. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
  4. A decretal epistle.
  5. (obsolete) A location or compartment.
Verb
  1. To divide into chapters.
  2. To put into a chapter.
  3. (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
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