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/sˈɛgmənt/ /sˌɛgmˈɛnt/ Listen

noun

Segment n.

1.

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

2.

(Geom.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

3.

(Mach.)

(a)

A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.

(b)

A segment gear.

4.

(Biol.)

(a)

One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

(b)

One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face.

Segment of a line, the part of a line contained between two points on it.

Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes.

Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n., 5.

verb

Segment v. i. (Biol.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

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Etymology of 'Segment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Segment" Quotes from Famous Books

... therefore, that the sixth segment is like the others in plan, but that it is modified ...

— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... lay, these multitudinous and disparate quadrangles, all their rivalries merged in the making of a great catholic pattern. And the roofs of the buildings around them seemed level with their lawns. No higher the roofs of the very towers. Up from their tiny segment of the earth's spinning surface they stood negligible beneath infinity. And new, too, quite new, in eternity; transient upstarts. I saw Oxford as a place that had no more past and no more future than a mining-camp. I smiled down. O hoary and unassailable ...

— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

... procession round his grave; reminding one of those tardy honours paid to some great prince of song, who—left during life to languish in a garret—is buried by nobles in Westminster Abbey. A few minutes more the last fiery segment had disappeared beneath the purple ...

— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... Toward the Northern segment of the circle he came to a young giant from the hills who was walking back and forth with the utmost vigor and shaking himself as if he would throw off the cold. His brown face brightened with pleasure when he saw Harry and exchanged ...

— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler

... be conceived as a circle, then Jewish history occupies the position of the diameter, the line passing through its centre, and the history of every other nation is represented by a chord marking off a smaller segment of the circle. The history of the Jewish people is like an axis crossing the history of mankind from one of its poles to the other. As an unbroken thread it runs through the ancient civilization of Egypt and Mesopotamia, down to the ...

— Jewish History • S. M. Dubnow

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