segment

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Related terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Hyponyms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 External links 2 Crimean Tatar 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Declension 2.3 References

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology

From Latin segmentum (“‘a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel’”) < secare (“‘to cut’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

noun

• (UK, US) enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA: /ˈsɛg.mənt/, SAMPA: /"sEg.m@nt/

verb

• (UK) IPA: /sɛgˈmɛnt/, SAMPA: /sEg"mEnt/
• (US) enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA: /ˈsɛgmɛnt/, /sɛgˈmɛnt/, SAMPA: /"sEgmEnt/, /sEg"mEnt/

[edit] Noun

segment (plural segments)

1. A length of some object.

   a segment of rope

2. (mathematics) A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
3. (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
4. (topology) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.
5. (phonology) A consonant or a vowel.
6. A part of a television program, devoted to a topic.

   The news showed a segment on global warming.

7. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
8. (travel) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
9. (zoology) 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.

[edit] Synonyms

• (straight path): line segment
• (area of a circle): circular segment

[edit] Derived terms

• circular segment
• image segment
• line segment
• market segment
• memory segment

[edit] Related terms

• secant
• sect
• section
• sector
• segmentation
• somite

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to segment (third-person singular simple present segments, present participle segmenting, simple past and past participle segmented)

1. To divide into segments or sections.

   Segment the essay by topic.

[edit] Hyponyms

• supreme

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[edit] External links

• segment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• segment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Crimean Tatar

[edit] Etymology

Latin segmentum (“‘cutting’”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“‘to cut’”)

[edit] Noun

segment

1. segment

[edit] Declension

[edit] References

• Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]