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Word: segment (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A length of some object.
  • A part of a television program, devoted to a topic.
  • botany A portion of an organ whose cells are derive from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
  • computing An Ethernet bus.
  • geometry The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
  • mathematics A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
  • phonology A consonant or a vowel.
  • topology Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.
  • travel A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • To divide into segments or sections.

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