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segment

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE certain ▪ Should we concentrate our focus on certain market segments ? ▪ It could probably be taught in social studies classes as describing a belief held by certain segments of the population. different ▪ Distinctive ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1859, intransitive, in reference to cell division, from segment (n.). Transitive sense, "divide (something) into segments" is from 1872. Related: Segmented ; segmenting .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Segment \Seg"ment\, v. i. (Biol.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Segment is an Internet software company based in San Francisco , California . The company is a platform for collecting customer data and sending it to analytics, marketing, and data warehousing services. Segment provides an API that collects and routes ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A length of some object. 2 One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion. vb. To divide into segments or sections.

Usage examples of segment.

Each chain over a shore span consists of two segments, the longer attached to the tie at the top of the river tower, the shorter to the link at the top of the abutment tower, and the two jointed together at the lowest point.

Visitor access to network connections Policy: All publicly accessible Ethernet access points must be on a segmented network to prevent unauthorized access to the internal network.

The confirmation of that truth becomes irresistible when we see how reason and conscience, with delighted avidity, seize upon its adaptedness alike to the brightest features and the darkest defects of the present life, whose imperfect symmetries and segments are harmoniously filled out by the adjusting complement of a future state.

By that time the warhead received its signal to detonate and the fuse flashed into incandescence, lighting off an intermediate explosive set in the center of the main explosive, which erupted into a white-hot segment that detonated the high-explosive cylinder of the unit in the nose cone aft of the seeker and navigation modules forward of the central processor.

A multitude of anfractuous cracks spread out from the rim of the segment as though tendrils of frost were gripping the tube.

Textures rippled into visibility: a mottled striation of greens in the annelid segments, facets in the trilateral chameleon eyes.

An important segment of the natural right school thus developed the idea of distributing and articulating the transcendent sovereignty through the real forms of administration.

Whereas an important segment of the natural right school developed the idea of articulating transcendent sovereignty through the real forms of administration, the historicist thinkers of the Enlightenment attempted to conceive the subjectivity of the historical process and thereby find an effective ground for the title and exercise of sovereignty.

Wolf looked up from where he carved a segment of mammoth ivory, shaping it carefully into an atlatl hook.

This axiom enables us to compare the lengths of any two segments either respectively on parallel rects or on the same rect.

The two segments forming the pedicels of the glands probably answer to the conical protuberance and short footstalk of the quadrifid and bifid processes.

The segments are then to be bruised thoroughly in a mortar, and applied in the mass as a poultice beneath a bandage.

Corunna, coming on deck the following morning, found Marvin bargaining with the bumboat men whose small craft, laden with horse-meat, water kegs and newly-caught marine delicacies such as mussels and squid, were clustered at the waist of the Olive Branch like squash seeds floating beside a segment of their parent squash.

August, 1907, the joints between the segments of the cast-iron lining were caulked with iron filings and sal ammoniac, mixed in the proportion of 400 to 1 by weight.

I was simply submitting arbitrarily selected insights as to the character and background of Centennial and its settlers, and I could depend upon the home office to polish whatever segments they might want to publish.