segment en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/ (UK, US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- sĕgʹmənt (UK, US)
Etymology
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
Meanings
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A length of some object.
a segment of rope
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One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf
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.
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- A portion. ▸ A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- A portion. ▸ The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- A portion. ▸ The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A portion. ▸ Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- A portion. ▸ A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
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A portion. ▸ A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
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.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
- 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.
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A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
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.
2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):The news showed a segment on global warming.
- An Ethernet bus.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| segments | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
seven-segment · segment shell · resegment · parasegment · segment cell · midsegment · segmentization · diplosegment · segment saw · haplosegment · ring-segment illusion · monosegment · intersegment · segmental · circle segment · bisegment · segment gear · multisegment · subsegment · segment descriptor · toxic anterior segment syndrome · segmentable · segmentary · segment rack · segmentectomy · segmentless · segmentwise · microsegment · segment tree · hemisegment · oversegment · suprasegment · macrosegment · segmentize · intrasegment · prosegment
Hyponyms
market segment · bronchopulmonary segment · circular segment · line segment · image segment · memory segment · muscle segment
Relateds
somite · sect · section · seven-segment display · segmentation · sector · secant
Synonyms
lith (part or section of a whole) · line segment (straight path) · cleft · clove · circular segment (area of a circle)
Translations (69)
ru сегме́нт (length of some object) · hu szakasz (length of some object) · hu rész (length of some object) · hu szegmens (length of some object) · la segmentum (length of some object) · nl segment (length of some object) · fr segment (length of some object) · hu hangtag (phonology: consonant or a vowel) · bg отрязък (length of some object) · fi segmentti (computing: region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program) · nb segment (math: portion) · fi osio (broadcasting: part of a program devoted to a topic) · fi osuus (broadcasting: part of a program devoted to a topic) · fi osuus (travel: portion of an itinerary) · es segmento (length of some object) · el τμήμα (math: portion) · eo segmento (math: portion) · uk сегме́нт (length of some object) · ru отре́зок (length of some object) · la segmentum (math: portion) · hu beszédhang (phonology: consonant or a vowel) · fi jaoke (botany: portion of an organ derived from a single cell within the primordium) · fi äänne (phonology: consonant or a vowel) · fi lehdykkä (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · pt segmento (length of some object) · it segmento (length of some object) · ms ulas (of citruses etc) (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · tl hiwa (math: portion) · hu részlet (length of some object) · tl putol (length of some object) · fi pätkä (math: portion) · cmn 片斷 /片断 (length of some object) · ky кесинди (length of some object) · hu cikk (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · pl segment (math: portion) · el τμήμα (length of some object) · fi ethernet-väylä (computing: Ethernet bus) · hu szegmentum (phonology: consonant or a vowel) · hu szelet (length of some object) · de Segment (length of some object) · el τεμάχιο (math: portion) · fi jaoke (zoology: one of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain) · ro segment (length of some object) · fi osa (math: portion) · fi jaoke (e.g. milliped) (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · hu gerezd (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · ja 切片 (length of some object) · fi pätkä (length of some object) · uk відрі́зок (length of some object) · pt secção (math: portion) · bg сегмент (math: portion) · fi segmentti (topology: piece of an order tree) · fi lohko (math: portion) · bg дял (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · ga deighleog (length of some object) · fr quartier (math: portion) · fi pallosegmentti (geometry: part of a sphere cut off by a plane) · hu metszet (length of some object) · eo segmento (length of some object) · fi segmentti (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · bg сегмент (geometry: part of a sphere cut off by a plane) · fi lohko (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off) · fi segmentti (math: portion) · cmn 段 (length of some object) · hu szegmentum (length of some object) · grc ἔκτμημα (math: portion) · pl człon (math: portion) · nn segment (math: portion) · hu szelvény (one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off)