What is "chapter heading"

Chapter \Chap"ter\, n. [OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See Chief, and cf, Chapiter.]

1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

2. (Eccl.)

   1. 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.

   2. A community of canons or canonesses.

   3. A bishop's council.

   4. A business meeting of any religious community.

3. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
   --Robertson.

4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

5. A chapter house. [R.]
   --Burrill.

6. A decretal epistle.
   --Ayliffe.

7. A location or compartment.

   In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
   --Shak.

   Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title.

   Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter.

   The chapter of accidents, chance.
   --Marryat.