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segment

/ˈsɛɡ.mənt/US/ˈsɛɡmɛnt/

segment noun: a length of some object.

Noun

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.
    • 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...2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
    Synonyms:
    cleft, clove, lith
  3. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
    Synonyms:
    line segment
  4. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
  5. The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
  6. Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
  7. A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
  8. A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
    • 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.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5
  9. 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.
  10. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
    • 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...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)
  11. An Ethernet bus.
  12. A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
  13. 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.

Verb

segment (third-person singular simple present segments, present participle segmenting, simple past and past participle segmented)

  1. (ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.
    • Segment the essay by topic.

segment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

segment in Hindi

segment; lith ; clove
फाँक phā̃k

segment in Tamil

கூறுபடுத்து, துண்டாக்கு, துண்டு, துண்டம், பிரிவு, பகுதி

segment in Urdu

segment
کھنڈ khanḍ

segment in Bengali

অংশ, রেখাংশ, বিভাগ, বৃত্তাংশ, কর্তিত অংশ, ছিন্নাংশ
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segment in Telugu
సెగ్మెంట్
segment in Malayalam
ഭാഗം, തുണ്ടം, കഷണം, ശകലം
segment in Kannada
ಭಾಗ, ತುಂಡು, ಖಂಡ, ಹೋಳು
segment in Gujarati
સેગમેન્ટ
segment in Odia
ସେଗମେଣ୍ଟ, ସେଗମେଣ୍ଟ୍
segment in Tagalog
hiwa, putol

Examples of segment in a sentence

  • His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
  • The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
  • Blue-collar workers represent a diminishing segment of society.

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Synonyms of segment

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Forms of segment

Noun
pluralsegments
Verb
third-person singular presentsegments
present participlesegmenting
past participlesegmented
pastsegmented

Plural of segment: segments

Origin of segment

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

Words formed from segment

Phrases with segment

Words that rhyme with segment

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Questions about segment

What does segment mean?
Segment means a length of some object.
What is segment in Hindi?
Segment in Hindi is फाँक (phā̃k). See Segment meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is segment?
Segment can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce segment?
Segment is pronounced /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of segment?
The plural of segment is segments.

Words near segment in the dictionary

  1. Seginus
  2. Segler
  3. Seglers
  4. seglitide
  5. SEGM
  6. segment
  7. segment cell
  8. segment descriptor
  9. segment descriptors
  10. segment gear
  11. segment gears

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: segment (page history and authors); फाँक (Hindi) (page history and authors); segment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کھنڈ (Urdu) (page history and authors); segment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); segment (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); segment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); segment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); segment (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); segment (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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