Segment
['segm(ə)nt] or ['sɛɡmənt]
Definition
(noun.) one of the parts into which something naturally divides; 'a segment of an orange'.
(verb.) divide or split up; 'The cells segmented'.
(verb.) divide into segments; 'segment an orange'; 'segment a compound word'.
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Definition
(n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
(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; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
(n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
(n.) A segment gear.
(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.
(v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Portion, section.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Section, part, portion, limb, member
ANT:Whole, totality, integrity, compound
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Definition
n. a part cut off: a portion: (geom.) the part of a circle cut off by a straight line: the part of a sphere cut off by a plane: a section: one of the parts into which a body naturally divides itself: (her.) a bearing representing one part only of a rounded object.—v.t. and v.i. to divide or become divided.—adj. Segmen′tal being a segment: in embryology noting the rudimental venal organs.—adv. Segmen′tally.—adjs. Seg′mentary Seg′mentate.—n. Segmentā′tion the act of cutting into segments.—adj. Segmen′ted.—ns. Seg′ment-gear a gear extending over an arc only of a circle providing a reciprocating motion; Seg′ment-rack a rack having a cogged surface; Seg′ment-saw a circular saw used for cutting veneers; Seg′ment-shell a modern form of projectile for artillery.
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Examples
- In 1806 Gladstone devised a front-draft, side-cut machine, in which a curved segment-bar with fingers gathered the grain and held it while a horizontally revolving knife cut the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As armature, commutator, and shaft rotate, the brushes connect first with one segment of the commutator and then with the other. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- An outer segment fell and he picked it up and bent the circle together and put it into the sandwich. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Five of these slide on the longest segment of the rod and the remaining one on the shorter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the latter operation the ball lies loose in the center of the segment, which must be sawed in half to release it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- How can he prove to me, for instance, that two right lines cannot have one common segment? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- There are defects discovered only when the ball is being turned or the segments cut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Similarly, touching the wire one fourth of its length from an end makes it vibrate in four segments; touching it one fifth of its length makes it vibrate in five segments. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Each lens consists of concentric segments, see Fig. 46, 190 in number, surrounding a central disk, which together cause the rays to issue in parallel lines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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