Segments
['sɛgmənt]
Examples
- 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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