SEGMENT

section, segment

(noun) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; “a section of a fishing rod”; “metal sections were used below ground”; “finished the final segment of the road”

segment

(noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides; “a segment of an orange”

segment

(verb) divide or split up; “The cells segmented”

segment, section

(verb) divide into segments; “segment an orange”; “segment a compound word”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

segment (plural segments)

A length of some object.

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

(mathematics) A portion.

A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.

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

(geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.

(topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.

(science) A portion.

(phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

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

(zoology) 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.

(broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

(computing) An Ethernet bus.

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

(travel) 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.

(heraldry) A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.

Synonyms

• (part or section of a whole): lith

• (straight path): line segment

• (area of a circle): circular segment

Hyponyms

• bronchopulmonary segment

• circular segment

• image segment

• line segment

• market segment

• memory segment

Verb

segment (third-person singular simple present segments, present participle segmenting, simple past and past participle segmented)

(ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

Hyponyms

• supreme

Source: Wiktionary

Seg"ment, n. Etym: [L. segmentum, fr. secare to cut, cut off: cf. F. segment. See Saw a cutting instrument.]

1. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

2. (Geom.)

Definition: A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

3. (Mach.) (a) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim. (b) A segment gear.

4. (Biol.) (a) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation. (b) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome. Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face.

– Segment of a line, the part of a line contained between two points on it.

– Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes.

– Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n., 5.

Seg"ment, v. i. (Biol.)

Definition: To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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