segment

See also: Segment

EnglishEdit

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Wikipedia

A line segment.

A geometric segment, lower right.

A display composed of seven segments, the dot doesn't count.

EtymologyEdit

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secare (“to cut”).

PronunciationEdit

noun

(UK, US) enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
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verb

(UK) IPA^(key): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
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(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.
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. (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
4. (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
(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[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.
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.
(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

HyponymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

seven-segment

Related termsEdit

seven-segment display

Related termsEdit

Related terms →

TranslationsEdit

length of some object

Chinese:
Mandarin: 片斷 (zh), 片断 (zh) (piànduàn), 段 (zh) (duàn)
Dutch: segment (nl)
Esperanto: segmento
Finnish: pätkä (fi)
French: segment (fr) m
German: Segment (de) n
Greek: τμήμα (el) n (tmíma)
Irish: deighleog f

Italian: segmento (it)
Japanese: 切片 (せっぺん, seppen)
Latin: segmentum n
Portuguese: segmento (pt) m
Romanian: segment (ro) n
Russian: отре́зок (ru) m (otrézok), сегме́нт (ru) m (segmént)
Spanish: segmento (es) m
Tagalog: putol

one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off

Finnish: lohko (fi) (orange etc.); lehdykkä (fi) (leaf); jaoke (e.g. milliped); segmentti (fi) (part cut off)

math: portion

Esperanto: segmento
French: quartier (fr) m
Greek: τμήμα (el) n (tmíma), τεμάχιο (el) n (temáchio)
Ancient: ἔκτμημα n (éktmēma)
Latin: segmentum n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: segment n

Nynorsk: segment n

Polish: człon (pl) m, segment (pl) m
Portuguese: secção (pt) f
Tagalog: hiwa

line segment — see line segment

circular segment — see circular segment

geometry: part of a sphere cut off by a plane

Finnish: pallosegmentti

topology: piece of an order tree

phonology: consonant or a vowel

Finnish: äänne (fi)

botany: portion of an organ derived from a single cell within the primordium

zoology: one of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain

Finnish: jaoke

broadcasting: part of a program devoted to a topic

Finnish: osio (fi)

computing: Ethernet bus

Finnish: ethernet-väylä

computing: region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program

travel: portion of an itinerary

heraldry: bearing representing only one part of a rounded object

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.

HyponymsEdit

supreme

TranslationsEdit

to divide into segments or sections

Finnish: segmentoida, jakaa segmentteihin
French: segmenter (fr)
German: segmentieren (de)
Greek: διατέμνω (el) (diatémno)
Portuguese: segmentar (pt)

Romanian: segmenta (ro)
Russian: разделя́ть (ru) (razdeljátʹ), дели́ть (ru) (delítʹ), сегментировать (ru) (segmentirovatʹ)
Spanish: segmentar (es)
Swedish: segmentera (sv)