Definitions for segments

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segments seg·ment

Spelling: [noun seg-muh nt; verb

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

Segments is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in segments (eegmnsst).

Definitions for segments

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 segments

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

Examples for segments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”