# segment
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation
#### noun

* (UK, US) enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA: /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### verb

* (UK) IPA: /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA: /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

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.
    Synonyms: cleft, clove
    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.
** A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
** (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.
* (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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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.

#### 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
* muscle segment

#### Derived terms

* bisegment
* circle segment
* diplosegment
* haplosegment
* hemisegment
* intersegment
* intrasegment
* macrosegment
* microsegment
* midsegment
* monosegment
* multisegment
* oversegment
* parasegment
* prosegment
* resegment
* segmentable
* segmental
* segmentary
* segment descriptor
* segmentectomy
* segment gear
* segmentization
* segmentize
* segmentless
* segment rack
* segment saw
* segment shell
* segment tree
* segmentwise
* seven-segment
* subsegment
* suprasegment

#### Related terms

* seven-segment display

#### Related terms

* secant
* sect
* section
* sector
* segmentation
* somite

#### Translations
### Verb

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.

#### Hyponyms

* supreme

#### Derived terms

* self-segment

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “segment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “segment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin segmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [səɡˈmen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [səɡˈment]
* IPA: (Valencia) [seɡˈment]

### Noun

segment m (plural segments)
* segment

#### Derived terms

* segmentar

### Further reading

* “segment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “segment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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 Tatar
### Etymology

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

### Noun

segment
* segment

#### Declension
### References

* Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛxˈmɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: seg‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

segment n (plural segmenten, diminutive segmentje n)
* a segment

#### Derived terms

* bolsegment
* cirkelsegment
* lijnsegment
* segmentaal
* segmentboog
* segmentrand

#### Related terms

* sectie
* segmentatie
* segmenteren

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: segment
* → West Frisian: segmint

## French
### Etymology

From Latin segmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛɡ.mɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

segment m (plural segments)
* segment (all senses)

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: segment
** Afrikaans: segment
** → West Frisian: segmint
* → Romanian: segment
* → Turkish: segment

### Further reading

* “segment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin segmentum.

### Noun

segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment or segmenter, definite plural segmenta or segmentene)
* a segment

### References

* “segment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “segment” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin segmentum.

### Noun

segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment, definite plural segmenta)
* a segment

### References

* “segment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.

### Noun

segment n (plural segmente)
* segment

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sěɡment/
* Hyphenation: seg‧ment

### Noun

sègment m (Cyrillic spelling сѐгмент)
* segment

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈseɡment]
* Hyphenation: seg‧ment

### Noun

segment m inan (relational adjective segmentový or segmentálny)
* segment

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “segment”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025