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Webster 1913 Edition

Segment

Seg′ment

,
Noun.
[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.)
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
,
Noun.
, 5.

Seg′ment

,
Verb.
I.
(Biol.)
To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

Webster 1828 Edition

Segment

SEG'MENT

,
Noun.
[L. segmentum, from seco, to cut off.]
1. In geometry, that part of the circle contained between a chord and an arch of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord.
2. In general, a part cut off or divided; as the segments of a calyx.

Definition 2024

Segment

Segment

See also: segment

German

Noun

Segment n ‎(genitive Segments, plural Segmente)

  1. segment

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segment

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English

A line segment.
A geometric segment, lower right.
A display composed of seven segments.

Noun

segment ‎(plural segments)

  1. A length of some object.
    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.
    a segment of an orange;   a segment of a compound or divided leaf‎
    • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
      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. (mathematics) A portion.
    1. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
    2. (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
    3. (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
  4. (sciences) A portion.
    1. (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
    2. (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
      • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
        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.
    3. (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.
  5. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
    The news showed a segment on global warming.‎
  6. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
  7. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
  8. (travel) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.

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Verb

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

  1. To divide into segments or sections.
    Segment the essay by topic.

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Catalan

Noun

segment m ‎(plural segments)

  1. segment

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Latin segmentum ‎(“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- ‎(“to cut”)

Noun

segment

  1. segment

Declension

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

French

Noun

segment m ‎(plural segments)

  1. segment (all senses)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sěɡment/
  • Hyphenation: seg‧ment

Noun

sègment m ‎(Cyrillic spelling сѐгмент)

  1. segment

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin segmentum ‎(“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- ‎(“to cut”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseɡment/
  • Hyphenation: seg‧ment

Noun

segment m ‎(genitive singular segmentu, nominative plural segmenty, declension pattern of dub)

  1. segment

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