A segment is one of several pieces that together create a whole. You could offer a segment of your orange to your girlfriend as a Valentine's Day gift. She’ll probably enjoy the orange, but she may break up with you.
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion;
Noun
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"
Noun
one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange"
Verb
divide or split up; "The cells segmented"
Verb
divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
n.
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates
or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a
segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
n.
A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane;
especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc
of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord;
as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
n.
A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of
a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
n.
A segment gear.
n.
One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in
egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
n.
One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many
animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
v. i.
To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo
segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
Segment
Segment
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion;
To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
Usage Examples
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
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Other Usage ExamplesA novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
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