segment

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Wikipedia

A line segment.

A geometric segment, lower right.

A display composed of seven segments, the dot doesn't count.

Etymology

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

noun

(UK, US) enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)

verb

(UK) IPA^(key): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/

Noun

segment (plural 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.
Synonyms: cleft, clove

a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
  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.
(mathematics) A portion.
1. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
2. (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
3. (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
4. (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
(sciences) A portion.
1. (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
2. (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
  - 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:
    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.
3. (zoology) 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.
(broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
The news showed a segment on global warming.
- 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):
  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.
(computing) An Ethernet bus.
(computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
(travel) 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

(part or section of a whole): lith
(straight path): line segment
(area of a circle): circular segment

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

seven-segment display

Related terms

Translations

length of some object

Bulgarian: отрязък (bg) m (otrjazǎk)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 片斷／片断 (zh) (piànduàn), 段 (zh) (duàn)
Dutch: segment (nl)
Esperanto: segmento
Finnish: pätkä (fi)
French: segment (fr) m
German: Segment (de) n
Greek: τμήμα (el) n (tmíma)
Hungarian: szakasz (hu), szegmens (hu), szegmentum (hu), szelet (hu), metszet (hu), részlet (hu), rész (hu)
Irish: deighleog f
Italian: segmento (it)
Japanese: 切片 (ja) (せっぺん, seppen)
Latin: segmentum n
Portuguese: segmento (pt) m
Romanian: segment (ro) n
Russian: отре́зок (ru) m (otrézok), сегме́нт (ru) m (segmént)
Spanish: segmento (es) m
Tagalog: putol
Ukrainian: відрі́зок (uk) m (vidrízok), сегме́нт m (sehmént)

one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off

Bulgarian: дял (bg) m (djal)
Finnish: lohko (fi) (orange etc.); lehdykkä (fi) (leaf); jaoke (fi) (e.g. milliped); segmentti (fi) (part cut off)
Hungarian: szelvény (hu), cikk (hu), gerezd (hu)

math: portion

Bulgarian: сегмент (bg) m (segment)
Esperanto: segmento
Finnish: osa (fi), lohko (fi), pätkä (fi), segmentti (fi)
French: quartier (fr) m
Greek: τμήμα (el) n (tmíma), τεμάχιο (el) n (temáchio)
Ancient: ἔκτμημα n (éktmēma)
Latin: segmentum n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: segment n

Nynorsk: segment n
Polish: człon (pl) m, segment (pl) m
Portuguese: secção (pt) f
Tagalog: hiwa

line segment — see line segment

circular segment — see circular segment

geometry: part of a sphere cut off by a plane

Bulgarian: сегмент (bg) m (segment)
Finnish: pallosegmentti (fi)

topology: piece of an order tree

Finnish: segmentti (fi)

phonology: consonant or a vowel

Finnish: äänne (fi)
Hungarian: beszédhang (hu), szegmentum (hu), hangtag

botany: portion of an organ derived from a single cell within the primordium

Finnish: jaoke (fi)

zoology: one of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain

Finnish: jaoke (fi)

broadcasting: part of a program devoted to a topic

Finnish: osio (fi), osuus (fi)

computing: Ethernet bus

Finnish: ethernet-väylä

computing: region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program

Finnish: segmentti (fi)

travel: portion of an itinerary

Finnish: osuus (fi)

Verb

segment (third-person singular simple present segments, present participle segmenting, simple past and past participle segmented)

(transitive, intransitive) To divide into segments or sections.
Segment the essay by topic.

Hyponyms

supreme

Translations

to divide into segments or sections

Bulgarian: сегментирам (segmentiram)
Finnish: jakaa osiin, jaotella (fi), segmentoida, jakaa segmentteihin
French: segmenter (fr)
German: segmentieren (de)
Greek: διατέμνω (el) (diatémno)
Hungarian: feloszt (hu), felbont (hu), szegmentál (hu), részekre oszt/bont/tagol
Portuguese: segmentar (pt)
Romanian: segmenta (ro)
Russian: разделя́ть (ru) (razdeljátʹ), дели́ть (ru) (delítʹ), сегментировать (ru) (segmentirovatʹ)
Spanish: segmentar (es)
Swedish: segmentera (sv)