segment — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A length of some object.

   Examples

   a segment of rope

2. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

   Synonyms

   cleftclove

   Examples

   a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf

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   The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

3. A portion. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.

4. A portion. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

5. A portion. The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.

6. A portion. Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.

7. A portion. A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

8. A portion. A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

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   In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

9. A portion. One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.

10. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

    Examples

    The news showed a segment on global warming.

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    In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.

11. An Ethernet bus.

12. A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

13. A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.

Verb

1. To divide into segments or sections.

   Usage

   • Transitive or intransitive

   Narrower terms

   supreme

   Examples

   Segment the essay by topic.

Noun

1. one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object

   Synonyms

   section

   Broader terms

   partportion

   Examples

   a section of a fishing rod

   metal sections were used below ground

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   finished the final segment of the road

2. one of the parts into which something naturally divides

   Broader terms

   partpiece

   Examples

   a segment of an orange

Verb

1. divide into segments

   Synonyms

   section

   Broader terms

   separatedividepart

   Examples

   segment an orange

   segment a compound word

2. divide or split up

   Broader terms

   separatedividepart

   Examples

   The cells segmented