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segment
- /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/ UK, US
- /sɛɡˈmɛnt/ UK
- /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/ US
- /sɛɡˈmɛnt/ US
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
noun 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
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A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
Similar: line segment
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The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
Similar: circular segment
- The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed. 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.
- 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.
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic. The news showed a segment on global warming.
- An Ethernet bus.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- 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.
verb segments · segmenting · segmented
- To divide into segments or sections. Segment the essay by topic.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: section, tranche, fraction, segmentation, chunk, part, compartment, sector, phase, sectoral, component, stage, interval, cluster, sequence, series
Translations
Every language
noun length of some object
| Español | segmento |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 切片 seppen |
| 中文 | 片斷 /片断 piànduàn, 段 duàn |
| Português | segmento |
| Français | segment |
| Deutsch | Segment |
| Italiano | segmento |
| Ελληνικά | τμήμα tmíma |
| Română | segment |
| Русский | отре́зок otrézok, сегме́нт segmént |
verb to divide into segments or sections
| Español | segmentar |
|---|---|
| Português | segmentar |
| Français | segmenter |
| Deutsch | segmentieren |
| Ελληνικά | διατέμνω diatémno, κατατέμνω katatémno |
| Română | segmenta |
| Русский | разделя́ть razdeljátʹ, дели́ть delítʹ, сегменти́ровать segmentírovatʹ |
Talk about this word "segment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/segment. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. segment. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/segment "segment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/segment.Cite this
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title = {segment},
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