segment

See also: Segment

English

A line segment.

A geometric segment, lower right.

A display composed of seven segments, the dot doesn't count.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

noun

• enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/

verb

• IPA^(key): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
• enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/

Noun

segment (plural segments)

1. A length of some object.

   a segment of rope

2. 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

   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

3. (mathematics) A portion.
   1. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
   2. (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
   3. (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
   4. (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
4. (sciences) A portion.
   1. (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
   2. (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
      • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, 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.

   3. (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.
5. (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 (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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.

6. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
7. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
8. (travel) 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.
9. (heraldry) A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

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

 

Derived terms

• seven-segment

Related terms

• seven-segment display

Related terms

Related terms

• secant
• sect
• section

• sector
• segmentation
• somite

Translations

length of some object

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 片斷／片断 (zh) (piànduàn), 片断 (zh) (piànduàn), 段 (zh) (duàn)

• Dutch: segment (nl)
• Esperanto: segmento
• Finnish: osa (fi)
• French: segment (fr) m
• German: Segment (de) n
• Greek: τμήμα (el) n (tmíma)
• Irish: deighleog f
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• Italian: segmento (it)
• Japanese: 切片 (せっぺん, seppen)
• Latin: segmentum n
• Portuguese: segmento (pt) m
• Romanian: segment (ro) n
• Russian: отре́зок (ru) m (otrézok), сегме́нт (ru) m (segmént)
• Spanish: segmento (es) m
• Tagalog: putol

part, portion

• Esperanto: segmento
• French: quartier (fr) m
• Greek: τμήμα (el) n (tmíma), τεμάχιο (el) n (temáchio)
• Latin: segmentum n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: segment n

  Nynorsk: segment n

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• Polish: człon (pl) m, segment (pl) m
• Portuguese: secção (pt) f
• Tagalog: hiwa

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. (transitive, intransitive) 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)
• Greek: διατέμνω (el) (diatémno)
• Portuguese: segmentar (pt)
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• Romanian: segmenta (ro)
• Russian: разделя́ть (ru) (razdeljátʹ), дели́ть (ru) (delítʹ), сегментировать (ru) (segmentirovatʹ)
• Spanish: segmentar (es)
• Swedish: segmentera (sv)

Further reading

• “segment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “segment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin segmentum.

Noun

segment m (plural segments)

1. segment

Derived terms

• segmentar

Further reading

• “segment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “segment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “segment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “segment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Crimean Tatar

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

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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French

Etymology

From Latin segmentum.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

segment m (plural segments)

1. segment (all senses)

Further reading

• “segment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin segmentum

Noun

segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment or segmenter, definite plural segmenta or segmentene)

1. a segment

References

• “segment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “segment” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin segmentum

Noun

segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment, definite plural segmenta)

1. a segment

References

• “segment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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^(key): /ˈseɡment/
• Hyphenation: seg‧ment

Noun

segment m (genitive singular segmentu, nominative plural segmenty, genitive plural segmentov, declension pattern of 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

Further reading

• “segment”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024