segment

See also Segment

English

Wikipedia

A line segment.

A geometric segment, lower right.

A display composed of seven segments.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

noun

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

verb

• (UK) IPA: /sɛɡˈmɛnt/, X-SAMPA: /sEg"mEnt/
• (US) enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA: /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/, X-SAMPA: /"sEgmEnt/, /sEg"mEnt/

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. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

   The news showed a segment on global warming.

   • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”:

     In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.

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. (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derive from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5

     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.

10. (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.

Synonyms

• (part or section of a whole): lith
• (straight path): line segment
• (area of a circle): circular segment

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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

Translations

length of some object

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 片斷 (cmn), 片断 (cmn) (piànduàn), 段 (cmn) (duàn)

• Dutch: segment (nl)
• Finnish: osa (fi)
• French: segment (fr) m
• German: Segment (de) n

• Irish: deighleog (ga) f
• Japanese: 切片 (ja) (せっぺん, seppen)
• Portuguese: segmento (pt) m
• Romanian: segment (ro) n
• Russian: отрезок (ru) (otrézok) m , сегмент (ru) (segmént) m 
• Spanish: segmento (es) m

line segment — see line segment

circular segment — see circular segment

Verb

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.

Hyponyms

• supreme

Translations

to divide into segments or sections

• Finnish: segmentoida, jakaa segmentteihin
• French: segmenter (fr)
• German: segmentieren (de)
• Portuguese: segmentar (pt)

• Romanian: segmenta (ro)
• Russian: разделять (ru) (razdel'ját') , делить (ru) (delít') 
• Spanish: segmentar (es)
• Swedish: segmentera (sv)

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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Etymology

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

Noun

segment

1. segment

Declension

    declension of segment

nominative	segment
genitive	segmentniñ
dative	segmentke
accusative	segmentni
locative	segmentte
ablative	segmentten

References

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sěɡment/
• Hyphenation: seg‧ment

Noun

sègment m (Cyrillic spelling сѐгмент)

1. segment

Declension

    declension of segment

	singular	plural
nominative	sègment	segmenti
genitive	segmenta	sègmenātā
dative	segmentu	segmentima
accusative	segment	segmente
vocative	segmente	segmenti
locative	segmentu	segmentima
instrumental	segmentom	segmentima

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Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈseɡment/
• Hyphenation: seg‧ment

Noun

segment m (genitive singular segmentu, nominative plural segmenty), declension pattern dub

1. segment

Declension

    declension of segment

	singular	plural
nominative	segment	segmenty
genitive	segmentu	segmentov
dative	segmentu	segmentom
accusative	segment	segmenty
locative	segmente	segmentoch
instrumental	segmentom	segmentmi