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segment Definition

seg·ment (seg′mənt; for v., -ment)

noun

  1. any of the parts into which a body is separated or separable; division; section
  2. Geom.
    1. a part of a figure, esp. of a circle or sphere, marked off or made separate by a line or plane, as a part of a circular area bounded by an arc and its chord
    2. any of the finite sections of a line
  3. Linguis. a phone, or single sound, in the stream of speech
  4. Zool.
    1. metamere
    2. the part of an arthropod appendage between joints

Etymology: L segmentum < secare, to cut: see saw

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to divide into segments

segment Related Forms

seg′·men·tar′y adjective

segment Synonyms

segment

n.

section, portion, fragment; see division 2, part 1, share. See syn. study at part.

segment Telecom Definition

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) unit of data transfer between host computers. Segments are used to establish connections, transfer actual data, acknowledge packet receipt and request retransmissions, and terminate connections. See also host, packet, and TCP.

segment Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • ileum: Diarrhea may occur temporarily especially if a long segment of ileum is used.
  • population: However, specific disease effects often apply only to certain segments of the cattle population.
  • DNA: Genes are segments of DNA that regulate biological activity.
  • electorate: Dewey played safe and waged a non-committal campaign designed to avoid offending any segment of the electorate.
  • similarity: When you are trying to find only the best segment of similarity between two sequences, use BestFit.
  • market: Packaged software is expected to be the most dynamic segment of the market in the short term.

Converse of object

  • align: BLOCKS Blocks are multiply aligned ungapped segments corresponding to the most highly conserved regions of proteins.
  • grow: The guests at the single solution events are highly segmented group of people in a growing consumer segment.

Adjective modifier

  • anterior: The real-time image allows you to view the retina and anterior segment with ease using the 20 second video capture feature.
  • fastest-growing: LS: We realized that carp fishing is the fastest-growing segment in the European market today.
  • non-standard: Learning the fundamentals non-standard segment where all states except policy limits the.
  • abdominal: A central dark bans broadens at the back to cover the final abdominal segments.
  • thoracic: The first three morphological segments to appear are thoracic segments.
  • overlapping: In effect, a spectrogram is built up from a multitude of power spectra of short, overlapping time segments of the signal.

Noun used with modifier

  • rollback: You must only put the names of already created rollback segments in the list.
  • perianth: DIVISION 4 DOUBLE DAFFODIL CULTIVARS One or more flowers to a stem, with doubling of the perianth segments or the corona or both.
  • activation: In both instances the residues of the protein kinases that are dephosphorylated are situated within the activation segment of the kinase.
  • grapefruit: They bulge outwards like grapefruit segments, giving two dimensions the appearance of three.
  • straight-line: Outline shapes Outline shapes, such as triangles, rectangles and parallelograms, consist of a series of straight-line segments between the vertices.
  • market: They're market segments, often in the customer's mind.