What is "segments"

Usage examples of "segments".

Value and prices ensure the virtual closing of those segments that remain open in language.

The corolla can hardly be said to be bell-shaped, as the five divisions are two-thirds of its depth, which allows it, when full blown, to become nearly flat, and as the segments are equal, sharply cut, and pointed, the flower has a star-like appearance.

The little calyx is cup-shaped, angular, and has small, stout, horn-like segments, which are bent downwards.

The segments are oblong, undivided, and at the base quite entire, but finely toothed near the top.

IBM executives were associated with higher rates of entry into new market segments in the hard-disk-drive industry, compared to U.

She was the one who wanted us to team up after we separately produced a number of segments that got considerable attention from the top of the PBS ladder.

Important segments of the discipline of history were also deeply embedded in the scholarly and popular production of alterity, and thus also in the legitimation of colonial rule.

There is no need to doubt the democratic, egalitarian, and even at times anticapitalist desires that motivate large segments of these fields of work, but it is important to investigate the utility of these theories in the context of the new paradigm of power.

In other words, the different segments of the outside are internalized not on a model of similitude but as different organs that function together in one coherent body.

In both cases the procedural autonomy, differential application, and territorialized links to various segments of the population, together with the specific and limited exercise of legitimate violence, were not generally in contradiction with the principle of a coherent and unified ordering.

It would likewise be impossible to order the segments of the multitude through processes that force it to be more mobile and flexible in hybrid cultural forms and in multicolored ghettos ifthis administration were not equally flexible and capable of specific and continuous procedural revisions and differentiations.

A definition of imperial administration that focuses only on the autonomous local effectiveness of administrative action cannot in itself guarantee the system against eventual threats, riots, subversions, and insurrections, or even against the normal conflicts among local segments of the administration.

We mean that the relationships among the modes of being and the segments of power are always constructed anew and that they vary infinitely.

In that period it seemed as ifonly the labor of waged workers was productive, and therefore all the other segments of labor appeared as merely reproductive or even unproductive.

J rgen Habermas seems to have understood this fact, but he grants the liberated functions of language and communication only to individual and isolated segments of society.