Segment

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of the parts into which something can be divided: segments of the community; a segment of a television program.
  • n. Mathematics The portion of a line between any two points on the line.
  • n. Mathematics The area bounded by a chord and the arc of a curve subtended by the chord.
  • n. Mathematics The portion of a sphere cut off by two parallel planes.
  • n. Biology A clearly differentiated subdivision of an organism or part, such as a metamere.
  • v. To divide or become divided into segments.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A length of some object.
  • n. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
  • n. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
  • n. Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.
  • n. A consonant or a vowel.
  • n. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
  • n. An Ethernet bus.
  • n. A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
  • n. A portion of an organ whose cells are derive from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To divide into segments or sections.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion
  • n. 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.
  • n.
  • n. A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring.
  • n. A segment gear.
  • n.
  • n. One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
  • n. One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
  • verb-intransitive. To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A part cut off or marked as separate from others; one of the parts into which a body naturally divides itself; a section: as, the segments of a calyx; the segments of an orange; the segments of a leaf.
  • n. In geometry, a part cut off from any figure by a line or plane.
  • n. In heraldry, a bearing representing one part only of a rounded object, as a coronet or wreath: usually a piece less than half of the circle.
  • To divide or become divided or split up into segments.
  • To separate or divide into segments: as, a segmented cell.
  • n. An element of a machine, such as a toothed wheel, cam, or pulley, the active surface of which is not a full surface of revolution, but only a segment or part of such surface.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. divide or split up
  • v. divide into segments
  • n. one of the parts into which something naturally divides
  • n. one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    separate    divide    part   
    Hyponym
    supreme   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    section    portion    somite    metamere    somatome    division    party    divide    circular segment    line segment   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bendt    Brent    Gent    Ghent    Kent    Lent    Tashkent    Trent    accent    ascent   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    section    sector    component    division    category    block    dimension    unit    configuration    location