segment

segment is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. 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.
4. noun. A segment gear.
5. noun. One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
6. noun. One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
7. intransitive verb. To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
8. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: section

9. noun. one of the parts into which something naturally divides

   "a segment of an orange"

10. verb. divide or split up

    "The cells segmented"

11. verb. divide into segments

    "segment an orange"

    "segment a compound word"

    Synonyms: section

Synonyms

section

Common word forms

segments, segmental, segmented, segmenter, segmenting, segmentize

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