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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
segment
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 feature analysis looks at different properties of segments and classes of segments.
▪ By focusing on wage profiles it is possible to show contrasts between different segments of the labour market.
▪ This is a revolving disc of different colour segments which automatically change the colour of the fountain.
important
▪ The second important segment is rural electrification.
▪ He certainly represented an important segment of the Orthodox community, with a prodigious capacity for fund-raising and vote-getting.
▪ The indifferent continue to greatly outnumber the inspired when it comes to decentralized management in that important segment of the management population.
large
▪ Microprocessor sales represent one of the largest segments of the chip market.
▪ But now a new outlook is sweeping large segments of the academic community.
▪ To make advanced computing and communications information infrastructure available to-and usable by-a larger segment of the society.
▪ The process by which larger segments get buried this way seems to be a kind of perverse shorthand.
▪ A large segment of the population surveyed was regularly taking vitamin supplements.
▪ These brown shales underlie about 160, 000 square miles of the western and larger segment of the Appalachian Basin.
orange
▪ Sprinkle the chopped orange segments over the apple and pineapple mixture.
▪ Garnish with parsley or coriander and orange segments.
▪ Add the orange segments and rind. 4.
▪ Trawler Pots - smoked mackerel fillets, flaked and mandarin orange segments blended with mayonnaise. 10.
▪ Garnish with orange segments and toasted almonds.
▪ Set aside four orange segments, for decorating the dessert before serving.
▪ Add the remaining orange segments to the other fruit in the processor. 2.
other
▪ Orders from other market segments remained firm with demand patterns clear for more than two years, he said.
▪ Their disposable wealth is increasing faster than any other segment of the population.
▪ Previously, we have shown similar patterns in other intestinal segments by use of impedance planimetry.
▪ The other segment conveys the new information that the speaker wishes to convey to the hearer.
▪ The yield curve is therefore determined by supply and demand conditions in each market segment without reference to conditions in other segments.
particular
▪ These services have been positioned against a particular segment within the diffused travel market, and are promoted accordingly.
▪ This right context information can change the interpretation of a particular segment.
▪ None the less, many employers wish to concentrate for redundancy purposes upon only a particular segment of the work-force.
small
▪ For instance, lasers could cut cloth into small segments.
▪ To print smaller segments of text, press Alt-F4 to highlight the text, then press Shift-F7.
▪ This will only go to the small segment mailed in October.
▪ Just take one small segment of your life and describe a specific achievement.
various
▪ It is getting harder by the day to isolate the various segments of the electronic publishing industry into neat little compartments.
▪ Shifting tides have subsequently resulted in conflict among various segments of Arab society, none more potent than the struggle of women.
▪ Thus looking at changes in sales in the various business segments is important when analysing overall profit margin.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Peel 3 more oranges, cutting away all the pith and membrane. Cut into segments and add to the melon.
▪ For instance, lasers could cut cloth into small segments.
▪ Peel the orange and cut into segments.
▪ Cut the peel and pith from the remaining two oranges and cut out the segments from each orange.
▪ Cut the peel from the orange and cut out the segments with a small sharp knife.
▪ When set, break up into small pieces. Cut the oranges into segments and place in a serving dish.
divide
▪ So the designers added external tendons that extend vertically, dividing the skin into segments like a pumpkin.
▪ She searches the message boards, divided into alphabetical segments or by regions of the country, for information about relatives.
▪ Here the hollow handle is oval in shape, has a pointed finial, and is divided into five equal segments.
▪ Often it makes sense to divide a territory into segments radiating outwards, with the salesperson's home being at the centre.
▪ A sentence is divided up into meaningful segments.
▪ Coding sequences are divided into segments by comparing the structures of the known mRNAs.
▪ The circle was divided into four equal segments by two straight paths; she took one of the paths.
▪ They have bodies divided into segments, and their legs and jaws are arranged in pairs.
include
▪ The tables in the following sub-sections include program segments that will sent the appropriate codes to the printer file.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An ant's body is divided into three distinct segments.
▪ Decorate the cake with orange segments.
▪ Each sales team targets its efforts at a particular segment of the general population.
▪ orange segments
▪ The program included a short segment about pet owners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the dragonflies, mould small curved lengths and mark on segments with a cocktail stick.
▪ In this segment of the nephron, reabsorption is all isotonic, and no contribution to dilution is made.
▪ Microprocessor sales represent one of the largest segments of the chip market.
▪ The diagram has one segment filled in; pupils could fill in the others themselves, working either in groups or individually.
▪ Their stories are bountiful in this engagingly mounted documentary, running Sunday night in three one-hour segments on the History Channel.
▪ There is also a list of the next segments to be tried in the lattice.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A semantic constituent which can not be segmented into more elementary semantic constituents will be termed a minimal semantic constituent.
▪ Consumer markets are usually segmented on the basis of geography, demography and buyer-behaviour.
▪ Doug prefers expensive Trojan silver fish, segmented to twist and swivel realistically.
▪ Routers allow companies to departmentalize and segment their networks so that a problem on one segment does not bring down another department.
▪ The average Vadinamian looks like an over-sized larva, boneless and segmented.
▪ The tape, shot on February 25, will be shown in five-minute segments this week.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Segment

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.

Segment

Segment \Seg"ment\, n. [L. segmentum, fr. secare to cut, cut off: cf. F. segment. See Saw a cutting instrument.]

  1. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

  2. (Geom.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

  3. (Mach.)

    1. A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.

    2. A segment gear.

  4. (Biol.)

    1. One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

    2. One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

      Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face.

      Segment of a line, the part of a line contained between two points on it.

      Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes.

      Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n.,

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
segment

1560s, from Latin segmentum "a strip or piece cut off, a cutting, strips of colored cloth," from secare "to cut" (see section (n.)), with euphonious alteration of -c- to -g- before -m-. Latin segmentum was used in Medieval Latin as a geometry term, translating Greek tmema, and the word was first picked up in English in this sense. Meaning "segmental portion of anything circular" is from 1640s; general sense of "a division, section" is from 1762.

segment

1859, intransitive, in reference to cell division, from segment (n.). Transitive sense, "divide (something) into segments" is from 1872. Related: Segmented; segmenting.

Wiktionary
segment

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.

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WordNet
segment

  1. n. one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" [syn: section]

  2. one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange"

  3. v. divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" [syn: section]

  4. divide or split up; "The cells segmented"

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Wikipedia
Segment

Segment may refer to:

Segment (handwriting)

A segment of handwriting is a piece of the pen-tip trajectory between two defined segmentation points. If the occurrence of a minimum in the absolute (tangential) velocity is used as a heuristic for segmentation, the pen-tip trajectory can be subdivided into segments corresponding to ballistic strokes.

In handwriting recognition or optical character recognition, other terminologies may be used, such as the term glyph for a non-character (i.e.: sub character or multi-character) pattern.

Segment (linguistics)

In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech". The term is most used in phonetics and phonology to refer to phones and phonemes, but can be applied for any minimum unit of a linear sequence meaningful to the given field of analysis, such as a mora or a syllable, a morpheme in morphology, or a chereme in sign language analysis.

Segments are called "discrete" because they are separate and individual, such as consonants and vowels, and occur in a distinct temporal order. Other contrastive elements of speech, such as prosody ( tone, stress), and sometimes secondary articulations such as nasalization, may coexist with multiple segments and cannot be discretely ordered with them. These elements are termed suprasegmental.

Segment (company)

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 customer data to over 160 different tools and database services.

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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.