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segmental

/sɛɡˈmɛntəl/

segmental adjective: of, relating to, or constructed from segments.

Adjective

segmental (comparative more segmental, superlative most segmental)

  1. of, relating to, or constructed from segments

segmental meaning in Bengali

segmental in Bengali

খণ্ড সম্পর্কিত, খণ্ড থেকে নির্মিত

Examples of segmental in a sentence

  • The majority (90.1 %) of patients required a hemihepatectomy, extended resection, or multiple segmental resection.
  • The segmental phones of Bangla are slightly different from those of other Indo-European languages.
  • This impression is due to certain segmental features (nonrhoticity, vowel quality), but also to sentence intonation patterns.

All 13 example sentences with segmental

Forms of segmental

comparativemore segmental
superlativemost segmental

Origin of segmental

From segment + -al.

Words formed from segmental

Questions about segmental

What does segmental mean?
Segmental means of, relating to, or constructed from segments.
What is segmental in Bengali?
Segmental in Bengali is খণ্ড সম্পর্কিত, খণ্ড থেকে নির্মিত. See Segmental meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is segmental?
Segmental is an adjective.
How do you pronounce segmental?
Segmental is pronounced /sɛɡˈmɛntəl/.

Words near segmental in the dictionary

  1. segment shells
  2. segment tree
  3. segment trees
  4. segmentability
  5. segmentable
  6. segmental
  7. segmentality
  8. segmentalization
  9. segmentalizations
  10. segmentalize
  11. segmentalized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: segmental (page history and authors); segmental (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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