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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
segmented
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an insect's segmented body
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But beneath its shell, the segmented character of the horseshoe crab is clear.
▪ It is a daunting task in a crowded, segmented marketplace where magazines rear up and expire as quickly as fruit flies.
▪ It is the demand and supply conditions in these segmented markets which help to determine the wage rates of different workers.
▪ Large spiders and segmented insects streamed ahead of her through the leaves, as if to escape attack.
▪ The project is an examination of the workings of a segmented labour market.
▪ They are primitive molluscs which have a curious segmented shell.
▪ This is not the place to explore the subtleties of dual or segmented labour market theories.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Segmented

Segmented \Seg"ment*ed\, a. Divided into segments or joints; articulated.

Wiktionary
segmented

  1. Having or made of segments. v

  2. (en-past of: segment)

WordNet
segmented

adj. having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters [syn: metameric, segmental]

Usage examples of "segmented".

Through the social development of capital, the mechanisms of modern sovereignty-the processes of coding, overcoding, and recoding that imposed a transcendent order over a bounded and segmented social terrain-are progressively replaced by an axiomatic: that is, a set of equations and relationships that determines and combines variables and coefficients immediately and equally across various terrains without reference to prior and fixed definitions or terms.

The problem of imperial administration is thus to manage this process of integration and therefore to pacify, mobilize, and control the separated and segmented social forces.

The multitude must be unified or segmented into different unities: this is how the multitude has to be corrupted.

He could see several features that suggested a possible provenance for the insect-folk: the domelike eyes, the long segmented body with the claspers at the end, the six wiry legs all grouped together just behind the head.

Beyond the overarching curve of the segmented viewscreens, the last of the preparations for launching were nearly complete.

The two of them strode side by side on limber segmented legs into the central vessel.

With a segmented limb, he gestured toward the floating spherical lenses.

It was a machine form, but unlike any Iblis had ever seen in his time as a trustee and slave master on Earth: a beautiful yet frightening monstrosity on graceful segmented legs.

Abruptly, the night desert erupted into a storm of frenzied shapes around them, huge segmented demons that rose up like living nightmares.

But the event was really a beginning, as the great Wormrider allowed himself to become incorporated into the magnificent segmented body of God.

The head was a giant snout, with segmented ring scales allowing it to bend in every direction.

The bulk of the nerves left the brain to travel along the thick segmented bone running down the torso, but they all branched into a tributary network that was distributed throughout the muscle bands and thin skin.