segment

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

noun

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

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verb

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/

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

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.

   Synonyms: cleft, clove

   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; a line segment.
   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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.

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

• seven-segment display

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.

• supreme

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin segmentum.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səɡˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səɡˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [seɡˈment]

segment m (plural segments)

1. segment

• segmentar

• “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.

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

segment

1. segment

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

Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.

• IPA^(key): /sɛxˈmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: seg‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

segment n (plural segmenten, diminutive segmentje n)

1. A segment.

• bolsegment
• cirkelsegment
• lijnsegment
• segmentaal
• segmentboog
• segmentrand

• sectie
• segmentatie
• segmenteren

• Afrikaans: segment
• → West Frisian: segmint

From Latin segmentum.

• IPA^(key): /sɛɡ.mɑ̃/

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segment m (plural segments)

1. segment (all senses)

• → Dutch: segment
  • Afrikaans: segment
  • → West Frisian: segmint
• → Romanian: segment
• → Turkish: segment

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

From Latin segmentum.

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

1. a segment

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

From Latin segmentum.

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

1. a segment

• “segment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.

segment n (plural segmente)

1. segment

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

sègment m (Cyrillic spelling сѐгмент)

1. segment

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

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

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

1. segment

• “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