segment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
broadcasting
computing
engineering
geometry
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
phonology
physical-sciences
sciences
topology
tourism
transport
travel
zoology
Etymology: From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
Inflected forms:
form: segments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: segments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: segmenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: segmented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: segmented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A length of some object.
pos: noun
examples: a segment of rope
gloss: One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
pos: noun
examples: a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf
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.
gloss: A portion.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A portion.
pos: noun
gloss: A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
pos: noun
examples: The news showed a segment on global warming.
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.
gloss: An Ethernet bus.
pos: noun
gloss: A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: To divide into segments or sections.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Segment the essay by topic.
Related words: seven-segment display
secant
sect
section
sector
segmentation
somite
Derived words: bisegment
circle segment
diplosegment
haplosegment
hemisegment
intersegment
intrasegment
macrosegment
microsegment
midsegment
monosegment
multisegment
oversegment
parasegment
prosegment
resegment
ring-segment illusion
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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: сегмент
roman: segment
lang: Esperanto
word: segmento
lang: Finnish
word: osa
lang: Finnish
word: lohko
lang: Finnish
word: pätkä
lang: Finnish
word: segmentti
lang: French
word: quartier
lang: Greek
word: τμήμα
roman: tmíma
lang: Greek
word: τεμάχιο
roman: temáchio
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔκτμημα
roman: éktmēma
lang: Latin
word: segmentum
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: segment
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: segment
lang: Polish
word: człon
lang: Polish
word: segment
lang: Portuguese
word: secção
lang: Tagalog
word: hiwa
lang: Finnish
word: jaoke
lang: Finnish
word: osuus