Dictionary Definition
segment
Noun
1 one of several parts or pieces that fit with
others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod";
"metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final
segment of the road" [syn: section]
2 one of the parts into which something naturally
divides; "a segment of an orange"
Verb
1 divide into segments; "segment an orange";
"segment a compound word" [syn: section]
2 divide or split up; "The cells segmented"
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- a length of some object: a segment of rope
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
- Informally, an area of a circle resulting from cuting off from the rest of the circle by a secant or a chord.
- a part of a television program
- The news showed a segment on global warming.
- an Ethernet bus
Synonyms
- sense straight path line segment
- sense area of a circle circular segment
Translations
line segment in geometry
circular segment
- Czech: úseč
Pronunciation 2
/sɛg'mɛnt/Verb
en-verb segmentTranslations
to divide into segments or sections
- Finnish: segmentoida, jakaa segmentteihin
- German: segmentieren
- Portuguese: segmentar
Crimean Tatar
Noun
segment- segment
Declension
References
Extensive Definition
Segment may mean:
- an internal section of a citrus fruit
- Market segment, the smaller subgroups comprising a market
Computing
- Memory segment, the portion of computer memory which may be addressed by a single index register
- Image segment created in computer vision
- String segment, the substring of a pattern delimited by two don't cares or one don't care and beginning or end of the pattern
- Network segment, a part of a larger computer network
- A protocol data unit of the transport layer in computing, e.g. TCP segment
- Line segment, part of a line that is bounded by two end points
- Circular segment, the area which is "cut off" from the rest of the circle by a secant or a chord
- Segment (biology), a repeated part of the metazoan body
- Segment (linguistics), a consonant or vowel
- Segment (rocketry), a controlled rocket motor burn of specified duration
See also
segment in German: Segment
segment in French: Segment
segment in Korean: 세그먼트
segment in Japanese: セグメント
segment in Polish: Segment
segment in Russian: Сегмент
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adjunct, affiliation, air line,
allotment, allowance, analyze, anatomize, apportion, assay, axis, beeline, big end, bigger half,
bit, bite, body, branch, break down, break up,
budget, categorize, chord, chunk, church, cleave, commission, communion, community, component, contingent, cross section,
cut, cut up, deal, denomination, destiny, detachment, detail, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, dissect, district, divide, divide up, dividend, division, divvy, divvy up, dole, edge, element, end, equal share, faction, fate, fellowship, fraction, fragment, great-circle course,
group, half, halver, helping, installment, interest, isolate, item, joint, length, lot, measure, meed, member, mess, modicum, moiety, normal, offshoot, order, organization, parcel, parcel out, part, particular, partition, party, percentage, perpendicular, persuasion, piece, portion, proportion, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, radius, radius vector, rake-off,
random sample, ration,
reduce, reduce to
elements, religious order, remainder, resolve, right line, sample, sampling, schism, school, secant, seclude, sect, sectarism, section, sector, separate, set off, share, shortcut, side, slice, small share, society, split, split up, stake, stock, straight, straight course,
straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, subdivide, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, tangent, transversal, variety, vector, version, wedge, zone