segment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕgʹmənt
ipa: /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
Forms: form: segments
Etymology: From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: a segment of rope
glosses: A length of some object.
examples: text: a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf
text: 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.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
synonyms: cleft
clove
glosses: One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion.
A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion.
The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion.
The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A portion.
Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A portion.
A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A portion.
A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A portion.
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.
examples: text: The news showed a segment on global warming.
text: 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.
ref: 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):
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An Ethernet bus.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: 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: sense: part or section of a whole
word: lith
sense: straight path
word: line segment
sense: area of a circle
word: 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 cell
segment descriptor
segmentectomy
segment gear
segmentization
segmentize
segmentless
segment rack
segment saw
segment shell
segment tree
segmentwise
seven-segment
subsegment
suprasegment
toxic anterior segment syndrome
Related terms: seven-segment display
secant
sect
section
sector
segmentation
somite