segment
noun
- identifiable unit in speech
verb
- to divide into pieces
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/ / /sɛɡˈmɛnt/ / /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/
noun
Etymology: From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
- A length of some object.
“a segment of rope”
- 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”
“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.”
- A portion.
- A portion.
- A portion.
- A portion.
- A portion.
- A portion.
“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.”
- A portion.
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
“The news showed a segment on global warming.”
“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.”
- An Ethernet bus.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- 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.
verb
Etymology: From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
- To divide into segments or sections.
“Segment the essay by topic.”