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Word: segment
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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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