SEGMENT

Segment

In linguistics, the term segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech".

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segment

Noun

  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
  3. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
  4. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
  5. Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.
  6. A consonant or a vowel.
  7. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
    The news showed a segment on global warming.
  8. An Ethernet bus.
  9. A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
  10. A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
  11. 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.

Verb

  1. To divide into segments or sections.
    Segment the essay by topic.


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