Meaning

13 senses
  1. A length of some object.

    a segment of rope

    Segment

    отре́зокotrézok, сегме́нтsegmént

    відрі́зокvidrízok, сегме́нтsehmént

  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

    one of the parts into which something naturally divides

  3. A portion.

    A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.

  4. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

  5. The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.

  6. Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.

    one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object

  7. A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

  8. A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

  9. 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.

  10. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

    The news showed a segment on global warming.

  11. An Ethernet bus.

  12. A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

Examples

20 sentences
  1. This segment of the audio contains too much background noise.

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  2. Divide this line segment into twenty equal parts.

    ruРаздели этот отрезок прямой на двадцать равных частей.

    deTeile diesen Streckenabschnitt in zwanzig gleiche Teile.

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  3. Midori ate a large segment of the orange.

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  4. The earthworm and the leech are both segmented worms.

    deDer Regenwurm und der Blutegel sind beides Ringelwürmer.

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  5. I need fifty ten-foot-long segments of wire.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
length of some object:
Русский
By meaning 1
length of some object:
Deutsch
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length of some object:

Origin

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

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

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