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heading

 noun
     
Related topics: Newspapers, Publishing
head‧ing [countable]
1TCN the title written at the beginning of a piece of writing, or at the beginning of part of a book:
chapter headings
2 a name that is given to a group of things or people, that helps to describe them as a group:
writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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