segment Definition
seg·ment (seg′mənt; for v., -ment)
noun
- any of the parts into which a body is separated or separable; division; section
- Geom.
- 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
- any of the finite sections of a line
- Linguis. a phone, or single sound, in the stream of speech
- Zool.
- metamere
- 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 Telecom Definition
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.
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