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segment

noun
/ˈsɛɡ.mənt/UK/sɛɡˈmɛnt/UK/ˈsɛɡmɛnt/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from segmentum

Definitions

  1. A length of some object.

    • a segment of rope

  2. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided

    One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

    • a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf

  3. A portion.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

      • The news showed a segment on global warming.

    2. An Ethernet bus.

    3. A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular…

      A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

    4. A portion of an itinerary

      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.

    5. To divide into segments or sections.

      • Segment the essay by topic.

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Derived

bisegment, circle segment, diplosegment, haplosegment, hemisegment, intersegment, intrasegment, macrosegment, microsegment, midsegment, monosegment, multisegment, oversegment, parasegment, prosegment, resegment, ring-segment illusion, segmentable, segmental, segmentary, segment cell, segment descriptor, segmentectomy, segment gear, segmentization, segmentize, segmentless, segment rack, segment saw, segment shell, segment tree, segmentwise, seven-segment, subsegment, suprasegment, toxic anterior segment syndrome

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for segment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA