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segment - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the parts into which something can be divided.
- noun The portion of a line between any two points on the line.
- noun The area bounded by a chord and the arc of a curve subtended by the chord.
- noun The portion of a sphere cut off by two parallel planes.
- noun Biology A clearly differentiated subdivision of an organism or part, such as a metamere.
- transitive & intransitive verb To divide or become divided into segments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- noun In geometry, a part cut off from any figure by a line or plane.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Biol.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
- noun One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion
- noun (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.
- noun A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring.
- noun A segment gear.
- noun One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
- noun One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
- noun 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.
- noun the part of a line contained between two points on it.
- noun the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes.
- noun (Acoustics) See
Loor , n., 5.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
length of some object. - noun mathematics A straight
path between twopoints that is the shortestdistance between them. - noun geometry The part of a circle between its
circumference and achord (usually other than thediameter ). - noun topology Any of the pieces that comprise an
order tree . - noun phonology A
consonant or avowel . - noun broadcasting A part of a
broadcast program , devoted to atopic . - noun computing An
Ethernet bus . - noun travel A
portion of anitinerary ; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city. - noun botany A portion of an
organ whosecells are derive from a single cell within theprimordium from which the organ developed. - noun zoology One of several parts of an
organism , with similar structure, arranged in achain ; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect'sthorax . - verb To divide into segments or
sections .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb divide or split up
- verb divide into segments
- noun one of the parts into which something naturally divides
- noun one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin segmentum, from secāre, to cut; see sek- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin segmentum ("a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel"), from secare ("to cut").
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Examples
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LE segment Data System: CRM ME segment* Missing Value Gap to be filled Missing Value Gap to be filled * Counts based on internal CRM segmentation
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Inside the sphere the chain segment is swollen like in a good solvent (v = 3/5).
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Total severance costs in the title segment were 6.3 million in the second quarter.
unknown title 2011
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The Title segment generated a pretax margin of 5.4% on revenues of $898 million.
unknown title 2011
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The title segment generated nearly $1.2 billion in total revenue for the third quarter, essentially flat with the second quarter this year and a 10% decline from the third quarter of 2010.
unknown title 2011
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The title segment generated $1.3 billion in total revenue for the third quarter, a 5%
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During the first quarter, the title segment reduced its employee count by 365, which is expected to produce an annualized cost savings of $21 million.
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The term segment usually refers to an information unit whose source and destination are transport layer entities.
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During the first quarter, the title segment reduced its employee count by 365, which is expected to produce an annualized cost savings of $21 million.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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While the company cut operating and employee costs in the third quarter, the claims provision as a percentage of the title segment's operating revenue totaled 23.5 percent.
Housing Wire 2008
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synonyms (153)
Words with the same meaning
- adjunct
- affiliation
- air line
- allotment
- allowance
- analyze
- anatomize
- apportion
- assay
- axis
- beeline
- big end
- bigger half
- bit
- bite
- body
- branch
- break down
- break up
- budget
- categorize
- chord
- chunk
- church
- circular segment
- cleave
- commission
- communion
- community
- component
- contingent
- cross section
- cut
- cut up
- deal
- denomination
- destiny
- detachment
- detail
- diagonal
- diameter
- direct line
- directrix
- dissect
- district
- divide
- divide up
- dividend
- division
- divvy
- divvy up
- dole
- edge
- element
- end
- equal share
- faction
- fate
- fellowship
- fraction
- fragment
- great-circle course
- group
- half
- halver
- helping
- installment
- interest
- isolate
- item
- joint
- length
- line segment
- lot
- measure
- meed
- member
- mess
- metamere
- modicum
- moiety
- normal
- offshoot
- order
- organization
- parcel
- parcel out
- part
- particular
- partition
- party
- percentage
- perpendicular
- persuasion
- piece
- portion
- proportion
- quadrant
- quantum
- quarter
- quota
- radius
- radius vector
- rake-off
- random sample
- ration
- reduce
- reduce to elements
- religious order
- remainder
- resolve
- right line
- sample
- sampling
- schism
- school
- secant
- seclude
- sect
- sectarism
- section
- sector
- separate
- set off
- share
- shortcut
- side
- slice
- small share
- society
- somatome
- somite
- split
- split up
- stake
- stock
- straight
- straight course
- straight line
- straight stretch
- straightaway
- streamline
- subdivide
- subdivision
- subgroup
- subspecies
- tangent
- transversal
- variety
- vector
- version
- wedge
- zone
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rhymes (69)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Bendt
- Brent
- Gent
- Ghent
- Kent
- Lent
- Tashkent
- Trent
- accent
- ascent
- assent
- augment
- bent
- brent
- cement
- cent
- circumvent
- consent
- content
- dement
- dent
- descent
- discontent
- dissent
- ent
- event
- extent
- fent
- ferment
- gent
- ident
- indent
- intent
- intersegment
- invent
- kent
- lament
- lent
- malcontent
- meant
- misrepresent
- misspent
- nonevent
- outspent
- overrepresent
- overspent
- pent
- percent
- present
- prevent
- reinvent
- relent
- rent
- repent
- represent
- resent
- scent
- sent
- spent
- stent
- supplement
- tent
- torment
- underrepresent
- underwent
- unspent
- vent
- went
- wente
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