Meaning of segment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A length of some object.
2. A length of some object
3. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion
4. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
5. A portion. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter). The part of a sphere cut off by a plane. Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree
6. A portion.
7. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
8. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
9. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment
10. The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
11. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter)
12. Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
13. A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
14. A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
15. 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.
16. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
17. An Ethernet bus.
18. A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
19. 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.

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Examples

“a segment of rope”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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