Segment

Noun

 * 1) A length of some object.
 * a segment of rope
 * 1)  A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
 * 2)  The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
 * 3)  Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.
 * 4)  A consonant or a vowel.
 * 5) A part of a television program, devoted to a topic.
 * The news showed a segment on global warming.
 * 1)  An Ethernet bus.
 * 2)  A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
 * 3)  A portion of an organ whose cells are derive 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Synonyms

 * line segment
 * circular segment

Derived terms

 * circular segment
 * image segment
 * line segment
 * market segment
 * memory segment

Related terms

 * secant
 * sect
 * section
 * sector
 * segmentation
 * somite

Verb

 * 1) To divide into segments or sections.
 * Segment the essay by topic.

Hyponyms

 * supreme

Thesaurus
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, 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, lot, measure, meed, member, mess, 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, 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

Etymology
From segmentum: < secare:.

Pronunciation

 * noun
 * verb
 * verb

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Ottoman Turkish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: segment

Verb

 * Finnish: segmentoida, jakaa segmentteihin
 * French: segmenter
 * German:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: segmenta

Noun

 * 1) segment

Etymology
segmentum:, from

Noun

 * 1) segment