segment

See also: Segment

English

A line segment.
A geometric segment, lower right.
A display composed of seven segments, the dot doesn't count.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

noun
  • (UK, US) enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA(key): /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
verb
  • (UK) IPA(key): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
  • (US) enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA(key): /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

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.
    Synonyms: cleft, clove
    a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf
    • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
      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 written, drawn, or read.
  3. (mathematics) A portion.
    1. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
    2. (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
    3. (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
    4. (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
  4. (sciences) A portion.
    1. (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
    2. (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
      • 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:
        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.
    3. (zoology) 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.
  5. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
    The news showed a segment on global warming.
  6. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
  7. (programming) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
  8. (travel) 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.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

  • seven-segment display

Translations

one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off

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.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

Catalan

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin segmentum.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    segment m (plural segments)

    1. segment

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Crimean Tatar

    Etymology

    Latin segmentum (“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”)

    Noun

    segment

    1. segment

    Declension

    Declension of segment
    nominative segment
    genitive segmentniñ
    dative segmentke
    accusative segmentni
    locative segmentte
    ablative segmentten

    References

    • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

    Danish

    Etymology

    From Latin segmentum.

    Noun

    segment n (singular definite segmentet, plural indefinite segmenter)

    1. a segment

    Declension

    Declension of segment
    neuter
    gender     		singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative segment segmentet segmenter segmenterne
    genitive segments segmentets segmenters segmenternes

    Derived terms

    • segmentere

    References

    Dutch

    Etymology

    Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /sɛxˈmɛnt/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: seg‧ment
    • Rhymes: -ɛnt

    Noun

    segment n (plural segmenten, diminutive segmentje n)

    1. a segment

    Derived terms

    • bolsegment
    • cirkelsegment
    • lijnsegment
    • segmentaal
    • segmentboog
    • segmentrand
    • sectie
    • segmentatie
    • segmenteren

    Descendants

    • Afrikaans: segment
    • → Indonesian: segmen
    • → West Frisian: segmint

    French

    Etymology

    From Latin segmentum.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    segment m (plural segments)

    1. segment (all senses)
    2. piston ring

    Descendants

    Further reading

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Etymology

    From Latin segmentum.

    Noun

    segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment or segmenter, definite plural segmenta or segmentene)

    1. a segment

    References

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Etymology

    From Latin segmentum.

    Noun

    segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment, definite plural segmenta)

    1. a segment

    References

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *sek-
    Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
    Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti
    Proto-Italic *sekaō
    Latin secō
    Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
    Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
    Proto-Italic *-mentom
    Latin -mentum
    Latin segmentum
    French segmentbor.
    Romanian segment

      Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.

      Noun

      segment n (plural segmente)

      1. segment

      Declension

      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative segment segmentul segmente segmentele
      genitive-dative segment segmentului segmente segmentelor
      vocative segmentule segmentelor

      Serbo-Croatian

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /sěɡment/
      • Hyphenation: seg‧ment

      Noun

      sègment m inan (Cyrillic spelling сѐгмент)

      1. segment

      Declension

      Declension of segment
      singular plural
      nominative sègment segmenti
      genitive segmenta sègmenātā
      dative segmentu segmentima
      accusative segment segmente
      vocative segmente segmenti
      locative segmentu segmentima
      instrumental segmentom segmentima

      Slovak

      Etymology

      Derived from Latin segmentum (“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /seɡment/, [ˈseɡment]
      • Rhymes: -eɡment
      • Hyphenation: seg‧ment

      Noun

      segment m inan (relational adjective segmentový or segmentálny)

      1. segment

      Declension

      Declension of segment
      (pattern dub)
      singularplural
      nominativesegmentsegmenty
      genitivesegmentusegmentov
      dativesegmentusegmentom
      accusativesegmentsegmenty
      locativesegmentesegmentoch
      instrumentalsegmentomsegmentmi

      Further reading

      • “segment”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
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