Definition:
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A segment gear.
- (n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
- (n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
- (v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
Compare segment with other words:
segment vs. stage
divide vs. segment
partition vs. segment
link vs. segment
segment vs. spheromere
segment vs. triparted
segment vs. uromere
desegmentation vs. segment
quinquefid vs. segment
protopodite vs. segment
segment vs. urite
mesothorax vs. segment
pleuron vs. segment
neuromere vs. segment
segment vs. sternite
merosome vs. segment
meropodite vs. segment
loment vs. segment
lith vs. segment
arthromere vs. segment
segment vs. zoonite
segment vs. strobilation
segment vs. tractrix
metasome vs. segment
articulus vs. segment
meros vs. segment
part vs. segment
segment vs. segregate
mobile vs. segment
division vs. segment
order vs. segment
fragment vs. segment
piece vs. segment
appendiculate vs. segment
proglottid vs. segment
segment vs. strobila
segment vs. telson
segment vs. sextile
segment vs. segmented
interleave vs. segment
segment vs. somite
sect vs. segment
segment vs. thorax
chain vs. segment
organism vs. segment
cell vs. segment
organ vs. segment
itinerary vs. segment
portion vs. segment
bus vs. segment
segment vs. topic
program vs. segment
broadcast vs. segment
segment vs. vowel
consonant vs. segment
diameter vs. segment
chord vs. segment
circumference vs. segment
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path vs. segment
length vs. segment
pectinate vs. segment
segment vs. segmental
segment vs. segmentation
anadromous vs. segment
annelid vs. segment
moiety vs. segment
coxa vs. segment
coalescence vs. segment
granulate vs. segment
segment vs. stipes
cone vs. segment
secant vs. segment
sector vs. segment
classification vs. segment
segment vs. stretch
segment vs. supreme
section vs. segment
catadromous vs. segment
execution vs. segment
segment vs. spot
line vs. segment
segment vs. translocation
far vs. segment
colon vs. segment
ring vs. segment
bit vs. segment
lift vs. segment
demonstrate vs. segment
family vs. segment
planar vs. segment
crane vs. segment
segment vs. tackle
rim vs. segment
pulley vs. segment