noun

• (British, America) enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA: /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/

verb

• (British) IPA: /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
• (America) enPR sĕgʹmĕnt, IPA: /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/

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.

   a segment of an orange;   a segment of a compound or divided leaf

3. (mathematics) A portion.
   1. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
   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. (science) 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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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. (computing) 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.
9. (heraldry) A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.

• (part or section of a whole) lith
• (straight path) line segment
• (area of a circle) circular segment

• seven-segment display

• secant
• sect
• section
• sector
• segmentation
• somite

• French: segment
• German: Segment
• Italian: segmento
• Portuguese: segmento
• Russian: отре́зок
• Spanish: segmento

• French: quartier
• Portuguese: secção

segment (segments, present participle segmenting; past and past participle segmented)

1. (ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

   Segment the essay by topic.

• French: segmenter
• German: segmentieren
• Portuguese: segmentar
• Russian: разделя́ть
• Spanish: segmentar