Definitions for segment

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segment seg·ment

Spelling: [noun seg-muh nt; verb

IPA: /noun ˈsɛg mənt; verb ˈsɛg mɛnt, sɛgˈmɛnt/

Segment is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in segment (eegmnst).

Definitions for segment

noun

1. one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section:
2. Geometry. a part cut off from a figure, especially a circular or spherical one, by a line or plane, as a part of a circular area contained by an arc and its chord or by two parallel lines or planes. Also called line segment. a finite section of a line.
3. Zoology. any of the rings that compose the body of an annelid or arthropod. any of the discrete parts of the body of an animal, especially of an arthropod.
4. an object, as a machine part, having the form of a segment or sector of a circle.
5. Computers. a portion of a program, often one that can be loaded and executed independently of other portions. a unit of data in a database.
6. an arclike support on which the typebars of a typewriter rest when not in use.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to separate or divide into segments.

Origin of segment

1560-70; Latin segmentum, equivalent to sec(āre) to cut + -mentum -ment

Examples for segment

Take Too Many Cooks: a fever dream of a segment that aired at 4:00am earlier this week.

Small as the segment of humanity is, it is a type of the great world to which it belongs.

And then there was the segment of the media that actively cheered it all on.

Maxillary segment: the sixth segment of the head, bearing the maxillae.

Earlier in the segment, host Chuck Todd had asked him if he understood and acknowledged that black people have a fear of police.

Excavate: with a depression that is not the segment of a circle.

In one segment, she stresses how important a good latte is—and "no one does it better than New York."

Joint: a segment or part between two incisures: an articulation.

But this romanticism is, as it were, a segment of the larger circle of idealism.

At one point, I was invited to appear on a segment of “Outside the Lines.”