segment

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   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. 4noun

   A segment gear.

5. 5noun

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

6. 6noun

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

7. 7intransitive verb

   To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

8. 8noun

   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. 9noun

   one of the parts into which something naturally divides

   "a segment of an orange"

10. 10verb

    divide or split up

    "The cells segmented"

11. 11verb

    divide into segments

    "segment an orange"

    "segment a compound word"

    Synonyms

    section