- a part of something that is separate from the other parts or can be considered separately
- She cleaned a small segment of the painting.
- Lines divided the area into segments.
- The changes will affect only a small segment of the population.
- They divided the bone into equal segments.
- one of the sections of an orange, a lemon, etc.Topics Foodc2
- (geometry) a part of a circle separated from the rest by a single line
- (phonetics) the smallest speech sound that a word can be divided into
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a term in geometry): from Latin segmentum, from secare ‘to cut’. The verb dates from the mid 19th cent.
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