segment
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secare (“to cut”).
PronunciationEdit
- noun
- verb
- (UK) IPA(key): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA(key): /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
NounEdit
segment (plural segments)
- A length of some object.
- a segment of rope
- 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.
- (mathematics) A portion.
- (sciences) 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.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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.
- (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.
- The news showed a segment on global warming.
- 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):
- 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.
- (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.
SynonymsEdit
- (part or section of a whole): lith
- (straight path): line segment
- (area of a circle): circular segment
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VerbEdit
segment (third-person singular simple present segments, present participle segmenting, simple past and past participle segmented)
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide into segments or sections.
- Segment the essay by topic.
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Further readingEdit
- segment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- segment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
segment m (plural segments)
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Further readingEdit
- “segment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “segment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “segment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “segment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean TatarEdit
EtymologyEdit
Latin segmentum (“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”)
NounEdit
segment
DeclensionEdit
nominative | segment |
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genitive | segmentniñ |
dative | segmentke |
accusative | segmentni |
locative | segmentte |
ablative | segmentten |
ReferencesEdit
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M., Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][1], Simferopol: Dolya, 2002, →ISBN
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
segment n (plural segmenten, diminutive segmentje n)
- A segment.
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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Audio (file)
NounEdit
segment m (plural segments)
- segment (all senses)
Further readingEdit
- “segment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment or segmenter, definite plural segmenta or segmentene)
- a segment
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Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment, definite plural segmenta)
- a segment
ReferencesEdit
- “segment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French segment, from Latin segmentum.
NounEdit
segment n (plural segmente)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) segment | segmentul | (niște) segmente | segmentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) segment | segmentului | (unor) segmente | segmentelor |
vocative | segmentule | segmentelor |
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sègment m (Cyrillic spelling сѐгмент)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sègment | segmenti |
genitive | segmenta | sègmenātā |
dative | segmentu | segmentima |
accusative | segment | segmente |
vocative | segmente | segmenti |
locative | segmentu | segmentima |
instrumental | segmentom | segmentima |
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin segmentum (“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
segment m (genitive singular segmentu, nominative plural segmenty, genitive plural segmentov, declension pattern of dub)
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- segment in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk