Definition of segment in English:

segment

noun ˈsɛɡm(ə)ntˈsɛɡmənt

1Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided.
部分；片段
a large segment of the local population
orange segments
the market for private cars can be broken down into several segments
Example sentencesExamples
- The researchers identified short segments of DNA that show up only in a specific species.
- Arrange the lemon, tangerine, and blood orange segments on top and around the mousse cake.
- Only about half the length of the duplicated segments corresponds closely with their genetic length.
- Seminary education was divided into four segments, initial preparatory school being the only one which offered some Slavonic.
- Drug offenders are the fastest-growing segment of prison populations in the United States.
- Secondly, heritage tourism is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry.
- Segmentation means dividing memory into several segments and accessing memory by both segment pointer and offset.
- Arrange the blood orange segments over the top of the meringue in a decorative pattern.
- There are large segments of our society that do not have equal access and are being left behind.
- Who can deny that today, organized crime dominates certain segments of the Bulgarian economy?
- The overall growth of the SUV segment has come, in part, from a rising industry.
- However, special attention must be paid to the donor chromosome segment around the target gene.
- Acrylic is perhaps the fastest-growing segment of the glazing market.
- Following card games, video and computer games comprise the largest segment of the gaming community.
- In many of the others, the spaces are divided into segments, more or less corresponding to the different generations.
- Its genome is made up of 100 million bases divided into six segments, or chromosomes.
- Furthermore, the courtyard's pavement is divided into ten segments.
- Spinal implants continue to represent the fastest-growing segment of the global orthopedic market.
- Within the first chamber the first segment of the siphuncle appears.
- The sympathetic nerve supply to the lung arises in the upper six thoracic segments of the spinal cord.
Synonyms
piece, part, bit, section, chunk, division, portion, slice, fragment, component, wedge, lump, slab, hunk, parcel, tranche
British informal wodge
subdivision, division, fraction, part, portion, section, constituent, element, unit, module, ingredient, slice, department, compartment, sector
branch, wing
1. 1.1 A portion of time allocated to a particular broadcast item on radio or television.
  （特定广播或电视节目的）时间段
  they probably want to tape you for the eleven o'clock segment
  Hammond and the others were filming a segment for his programme
  Example sentencesExamples
  From the top of the hour news items on Today and 30-second segments on CNN, to the rotating videos, images of the deceased permeate.
  The press no longer thinks yellow ribbons and support for soldiers is worthy of a few paragraphs or a segment on the ten o'clock news.
  There are two things that fill a newspaper or the news segment on TV or radio: news and advertising.
  Have you noticed, for example, how often segments on television news magazines deal with court cases?
2Geometry
A part of a figure cut off by a line or plane intersecting it.
〔几何〕用线（或面）截得的部分图形，尤指
Example sentencesExamples
- The main purpose of the work is to investigate the volume of segments of these three-dimensional figures.
- For example, when we start with a hexagon, the final shape may be a segment, a triangle, or another hexagon.
1. 2.1 The part of a circle enclosed between an arc and a chord.
  弓形
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is assumed that the unsupported outer border of the pouch deforms into a segment of a circle and that the material does not stretch much.
  This he affected by circumscribing a semicircle about an isosceles right-angled triangle and a segment of a circle similar to those cut off by the sides.
  The chord of the segment is given, as is its area, and the student is asked to compute its height (the length of the perpendicular bisector of the chord to the circle).
  He found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression.
  Given partial information about a segment of a circle, how do you compute what you want to know?
2. 2.2 The part of a line included between two points.
  线段
  Example sentencesExamples
  Newton gave a method of drawing the Cissoid of Diocles using two line segments of equal length at right angles.
  A system of three equations was derived using distances from three adjacent line segments drawn between vertices.
  Two similar problems were to trisect an angle and to produce a line segment whose square has the same area as that of a given circle.
  Given the way that we have defined line segments, a great circle makes a good definition of a straight line.
  We can mark a point on the side that divides it into segments of length a and b.
3. 2.3 The part of a sphere cut off by any plane not passing through the centre.
  球缺
  Example sentencesExamples
  Using a different approach, Archimedes found the surface area of a sphere, and the surface area of any segment of a sphere.
  As in the treatment of Siegel, lipid monolayers in the intermediates are assumed to form surfaces that are segments of spheres or of spherical torroids.
3Zoology
Each of the series of similar anatomical units of which the body and appendages of some animals are composed, such as the visible rings of an earthworm's body.
〔动〕体节；节
Example sentencesExamples
- They have a number of body segments (known as somites), which are sometimes fused to form rigid areas, or are free but linked to each other by flexible areas.
- Agnostids have only two or three segments between the cephalon and pygidium.
- Unlike the agnostids, polymerid trilobites typically have more than two or three thoracic segments, and the pygidium is usually smaller than the cephalon.
- The ventral branchial arch segments of placoderms are so poorly known that nothing useful can be said.
- This specimen cannot be specifically identified because it lacks the cephalon and first thoracic segment.
4Phonetics
The smallest distinct part of a spoken utterance, especially with regard to vowel and consonant sounds rather than stress or intonation.
〔语音学〕（元音、辅音的）切分成分
Example sentencesExamples
- A synthesized speech segment sounds exactly the way the term suggests: synthetic.
- This sound cue, which lasts for one-tenth to one-fifth of a second, marks the transition from a consonant sound to a speech segment beginning with a vowel.
- There may certainly be independent grounds for categorizing segments as vowels or consonants, in terms of their inherent sonority and phonological dependence, for example.

verb ˈsɛɡm(ə)ntsɛɡˈmɛntˈsɛɡmənt

[with object]

1Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.
分割；划分
the unemployed are segmented into two groups
失业者划分为两类。
Example sentencesExamples
- The monopolist can segment market demand, and still certify white males as before.
- Their competitors also cannot segment their databases and offer tailored and targeted holidays to existing customers.
- For one thing, traditional consumer electronics companies attempt to segment the market.
- Analysts say that Taiwan's economy is segmented into two parts.
- Mohan Ram's collection was segmented into two genres, world cinema and Indian cinema.
- The recipes are segmented into nine chapters - meat, egg, fish, vegetables, rice, pickles, desserts, breakfast delights and teatime favourites.
- I'm not holding my breath, but they do need to segment supermarket and convenience trading.
- Outline writers segment the overall plot into weekly and then daily portions.
- At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes.
- The course is segmented into six different sections.
- How useful is it to segment the great movement out of nineteenth-century Europe into distinct ‘national’ migrations?
- The muscles of the body are segmented into blocks called myotomes.
- Broadly, the clothes are segmented into casual cottons and semi-corporate or office wear.
- Peat cutters had been at work, segmenting the bogs into little squares to extract their staple fuel.
- This will also allow companies to segment product lines in the manufacturing process with secure and non-secure versions.
- The next step in transforming the selling strategy was to segment the potential customer market.
- Each of these targets, along with others for ambulance response times, segments the timeline into intervals deemed controllable by the separate parts of the system.
- It is hard - although not impossible - for big banks to segment their services to appeal to different customers, he suggests.
Synonyms
divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember
sever, segregate, divorce, partition, section, compartment
share out, portion out, distribute
1. 1.1no object Divide into separate parts or sections.
  分割；划分
  the market is beginning to segment into a number of well-defined categories
  市场正在分化成明确的几类。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the educated class has grown, it has segmented.
  Would they factionalise and segment, or unify?
  If the bulbs have segmented into cloves which can be separated, it is time to harvest.
2. 1.2Embryology no object (of a cell) undergo cleavage; divide into many cells.
  〔胚〕（细胞）分裂

Derivatives

segmentary

adjective

In Somali society, the segmentary lineage system allows subdivisions of six or more levels of identity, with migration decisions often taken at the sixth level.
Example sentencesExamples
- Although political affiliation is fluid and shifts with changing circumstances, segmentary kinship guarantees every individual basic rights in a wider kinship network.
- These so-called segmentary systems are organised around a principle of opposition.
- Unconstrained by male segmentary politics, their differential affinity blurred lines of emnity, producing the prospect of continuing reconciliation.
- The tribal segmentary system thus fosters an ethic of egalitarianism with its expression found in the members of the corporate patrilineal descent groups.

Origin

Late 16th century (as a term in geometry): from Latin segmentum, from secare 'to cut'. The verb dates from the mid 19th century.

insect from early 17th century:
Insects have bodies that are divided into segments, and segments are the basic idea behind the word. Insect was formed in the 17th century from Latin animal insectum ‘segmented animal’, and originally referred to any small cold-blooded creature with a segmented body, for example, a spider, not just what we would call insects. The root word is secare ‘to cut’, which gave us dissect (late 16th century), section (Late Middle English), and segment (late 16th century).

Rhymes

absent, accent, anent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, content, dent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, lament, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, sent, spent, stent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, tent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went

Definition of segment in US English:

segment

nounˈsɛɡmənt

1Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided.
部分；片段
Example sentencesExamples
- There are large segments of our society that do not have equal access and are being left behind.
- Following card games, video and computer games comprise the largest segment of the gaming community.
- Its genome is made up of 100 million bases divided into six segments, or chromosomes.
- Who can deny that today, organized crime dominates certain segments of the Bulgarian economy?
- Segmentation means dividing memory into several segments and accessing memory by both segment pointer and offset.
- Spinal implants continue to represent the fastest-growing segment of the global orthopedic market.
- Arrange the lemon, tangerine, and blood orange segments on top and around the mousse cake.
- The sympathetic nerve supply to the lung arises in the upper six thoracic segments of the spinal cord.
- Furthermore, the courtyard's pavement is divided into ten segments.
- Drug offenders are the fastest-growing segment of prison populations in the United States.
- Only about half the length of the duplicated segments corresponds closely with their genetic length.
- Arrange the blood orange segments over the top of the meringue in a decorative pattern.
- Acrylic is perhaps the fastest-growing segment of the glazing market.
- However, special attention must be paid to the donor chromosome segment around the target gene.
- Seminary education was divided into four segments, initial preparatory school being the only one which offered some Slavonic.
- Secondly, heritage tourism is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry.
- In many of the others, the spaces are divided into segments, more or less corresponding to the different generations.
- The overall growth of the SUV segment has come, in part, from a rising industry.
- Within the first chamber the first segment of the siphuncle appears.
- The researchers identified short segments of DNA that show up only in a specific species.
Synonyms
piece, part, bit, section, chunk, division, portion, slice, fragment, component, wedge, lump, slab, hunk, parcel, tranche
subdivision, division, fraction, part, portion, section, constituent, element, unit, module, ingredient, slice, department, compartment, sector
1. 1.1 A portion of time allocated to a particular broadcast item on radio or television.
  （特定广播或电视节目的）时间段
  Example sentencesExamples
  The press no longer thinks yellow ribbons and support for soldiers is worthy of a few paragraphs or a segment on the ten o'clock news.
  There are two things that fill a newspaper or the news segment on TV or radio: news and advertising.
  Have you noticed, for example, how often segments on television news magazines deal with court cases?
  From the top of the hour news items on Today and 30-second segments on CNN, to the rotating videos, images of the deceased permeate.
2Geometry
A part of a figure cut off by a line or plane intersecting it.
〔几何〕用线（或面）截得的部分图形，尤指
Example sentencesExamples
- For example, when we start with a hexagon, the final shape may be a segment, a triangle, or another hexagon.
- The main purpose of the work is to investigate the volume of segments of these three-dimensional figures.
1. 2.1 The part of a circle enclosed between an arc and a chord.
  弓形
  Example sentencesExamples
  He found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression.
  Given partial information about a segment of a circle, how do you compute what you want to know?
  The chord of the segment is given, as is its area, and the student is asked to compute its height (the length of the perpendicular bisector of the chord to the circle).
  This he affected by circumscribing a semicircle about an isosceles right-angled triangle and a segment of a circle similar to those cut off by the sides.
  It is assumed that the unsupported outer border of the pouch deforms into a segment of a circle and that the material does not stretch much.
2. 2.2 The part of a line included between two points.
  线段
  Example sentencesExamples
  Two similar problems were to trisect an angle and to produce a line segment whose square has the same area as that of a given circle.
  A system of three equations was derived using distances from three adjacent line segments drawn between vertices.
  Given the way that we have defined line segments, a great circle makes a good definition of a straight line.
  Newton gave a method of drawing the Cissoid of Diocles using two line segments of equal length at right angles.
  We can mark a point on the side that divides it into segments of length a and b.
3. 2.3 The part of a sphere cut off by any plane not passing through the center.
  球缺
  Example sentencesExamples
  As in the treatment of Siegel, lipid monolayers in the intermediates are assumed to form surfaces that are segments of spheres or of spherical torroids.
  Using a different approach, Archimedes found the surface area of a sphere, and the surface area of any segment of a sphere.
3Zoology
Each of the series of similar anatomical units of which the body and appendages of some animals are composed, such as the visible rings of an earthworm's body.
〔动〕体节；节
Example sentencesExamples
- They have a number of body segments (known as somites), which are sometimes fused to form rigid areas, or are free but linked to each other by flexible areas.
- This specimen cannot be specifically identified because it lacks the cephalon and first thoracic segment.
- Agnostids have only two or three segments between the cephalon and pygidium.
- The ventral branchial arch segments of placoderms are so poorly known that nothing useful can be said.
- Unlike the agnostids, polymerid trilobites typically have more than two or three thoracic segments, and the pygidium is usually smaller than the cephalon.
4Phonetics
The smallest distinct part of a spoken utterance, in particular the vowels and consonants as opposed to stress and intonation.
〔语音学〕（元音、辅音的）切分成分
Example sentencesExamples
- A synthesized speech segment sounds exactly the way the term suggests: synthetic.
- There may certainly be independent grounds for categorizing segments as vowels or consonants, in terms of their inherent sonority and phonological dependence, for example.
- This sound cue, which lasts for one-tenth to one-fifth of a second, marks the transition from a consonant sound to a speech segment beginning with a vowel.

verbˈsɛɡmənt

[with object]

1Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.
分割；划分
the unemployed are segmented into two groups
失业者划分为两类。
Example sentencesExamples
- The muscles of the body are segmented into blocks called myotomes.
- Peat cutters had been at work, segmenting the bogs into little squares to extract their staple fuel.
- How useful is it to segment the great movement out of nineteenth-century Europe into distinct ‘national’ migrations?
- The course is segmented into six different sections.
- Mohan Ram's collection was segmented into two genres, world cinema and Indian cinema.
- Outline writers segment the overall plot into weekly and then daily portions.
- This will also allow companies to segment product lines in the manufacturing process with secure and non-secure versions.
- The monopolist can segment market demand, and still certify white males as before.
- Broadly, the clothes are segmented into casual cottons and semi-corporate or office wear.
- Each of these targets, along with others for ambulance response times, segments the timeline into intervals deemed controllable by the separate parts of the system.
- It is hard - although not impossible - for big banks to segment their services to appeal to different customers, he suggests.
- Their competitors also cannot segment their databases and offer tailored and targeted holidays to existing customers.
- I'm not holding my breath, but they do need to segment supermarket and convenience trading.
- Analysts say that Taiwan's economy is segmented into two parts.
- At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes.
- For one thing, traditional consumer electronics companies attempt to segment the market.
- The recipes are segmented into nine chapters - meat, egg, fish, vegetables, rice, pickles, desserts, breakfast delights and teatime favourites.
- The next step in transforming the selling strategy was to segment the potential customer market.
Synonyms
divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember
1. 1.1no object Divide into separate parts or sections.
  分割；划分
  the market is beginning to segment into a number of well-defined categories
  市场正在分化成明确的几类。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If the bulbs have segmented into cloves which can be separated, it is time to harvest.
  Would they factionalise and segment, or unify?
  As the educated class has grown, it has segmented.
2. 1.2Embryology no object (of a cell) undergo cleavage; divide into many cells.
  〔胚〕（细胞）分裂

Origin

Late 16th century (as a term in geometry): from Latin segmentum, from secare ‘to cut’. The verb dates from the mid 19th century.

词汇	segment
释义	Definition of segment in English: segment noun ˈsɛɡm(ə)ntˈsɛɡmənt 1Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided. 部分；片段 a large segment of the local population orange segments the market for private cars can be broken down into several segments Example sentencesExamples The researchers identified short segments of DNA that show up only in a specific species. Arrange the lemon, tangerine, and blood orange segments on top and around the mousse cake. Only about half the length of the duplicated segments corresponds closely with their genetic length. Seminary education was divided into four segments, initial preparatory school being the only one which offered some Slavonic. Drug offenders are the fastest-growing segment of prison populations in the United States. Secondly, heritage tourism is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry. Segmentation means dividing memory into several segments and accessing memory by both segment pointer and offset. Arrange the blood orange segments over the top of the meringue in a decorative pattern. There are large segments of our society that do not have equal access and are being left behind. Who can deny that today, organized crime dominates certain segments of the Bulgarian economy? The overall growth of the SUV segment has come, in part, from a rising industry. However, special attention must be paid to the donor chromosome segment around the target gene. Acrylic is perhaps the fastest-growing segment of the glazing market. Following card games, video and computer games comprise the largest segment of the gaming community. In many of the others, the spaces are divided into segments, more or less corresponding to the different generations. Its genome is made up of 100 million bases divided into six segments, or chromosomes. Furthermore, the courtyard's pavement is divided into ten segments. Spinal implants continue to represent the fastest-growing segment of the global orthopedic market. Within the first chamber the first segment of the siphuncle appears. The sympathetic nerve supply to the lung arises in the upper six thoracic segments of the spinal cord. Synonyms piece, part, bit, section, chunk, division, portion, slice, fragment, component, wedge, lump, slab, hunk, parcel, tranche British informal wodge subdivision, division, fraction, part, portion, section, constituent, element, unit, module, ingredient, slice, department, compartment, sector branch, wing 1.1 A portion of time allocated to a particular broadcast item on radio or television. （特定广播或电视节目的）时间段 they probably want to tape you for the eleven o'clock segment Hammond and the others were filming a segment for his programme Example sentencesExamples From the top of the hour news items on Today and 30-second segments on CNN, to the rotating videos, images of the deceased permeate. The press no longer thinks yellow ribbons and support for soldiers is worthy of a few paragraphs or a segment on the ten o'clock news. There are two things that fill a newspaper or the news segment on TV or radio: news and advertising. Have you noticed, for example, how often segments on television news magazines deal with court cases? 2Geometry A part of a figure cut off by a line or plane intersecting it. 〔几何〕用线（或面）截得的部分图形，尤指 Example sentencesExamples The main purpose of the work is to investigate the volume of segments of these three-dimensional figures. For example, when we start with a hexagon, the final shape may be a segment, a triangle, or another hexagon. 2.1 The part of a circle enclosed between an arc and a chord. 弓形 Example sentencesExamples It is assumed that the unsupported outer border of the pouch deforms into a segment of a circle and that the material does not stretch much. This he affected by circumscribing a semicircle about an isosceles right-angled triangle and a segment of a circle similar to those cut off by the sides. The chord of the segment is given, as is its area, and the student is asked to compute its height (the length of the perpendicular bisector of the chord to the circle). He found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression. Given partial information about a segment of a circle, how do you compute what you want to know? 2.2 The part of a line included between two points. 线段 Example sentencesExamples Newton gave a method of drawing the Cissoid of Diocles using two line segments of equal length at right angles. A system of three equations was derived using distances from three adjacent line segments drawn between vertices. Two similar problems were to trisect an angle and to produce a line segment whose square has the same area as that of a given circle. Given the way that we have defined line segments, a great circle makes a good definition of a straight line. We can mark a point on the side that divides it into segments of length a and b. 2.3 The part of a sphere cut off by any plane not passing through the centre. 球缺 Example sentencesExamples Using a different approach, Archimedes found the surface area of a sphere, and the surface area of any segment of a sphere. As in the treatment of Siegel, lipid monolayers in the intermediates are assumed to form surfaces that are segments of spheres or of spherical torroids. 3Zoology Each of the series of similar anatomical units of which the body and appendages of some animals are composed, such as the visible rings of an earthworm's body. 〔动〕体节；节 Example sentencesExamples They have a number of body segments (known as somites), which are sometimes fused to form rigid areas, or are free but linked to each other by flexible areas. Agnostids have only two or three segments between the cephalon and pygidium. Unlike the agnostids, polymerid trilobites typically have more than two or three thoracic segments, and the pygidium is usually smaller than the cephalon. The ventral branchial arch segments of placoderms are so poorly known that nothing useful can be said. This specimen cannot be specifically identified because it lacks the cephalon and first thoracic segment. 4Phonetics The smallest distinct part of a spoken utterance, especially with regard to vowel and consonant sounds rather than stress or intonation. 〔语音学〕（元音、辅音的）切分成分 Example sentencesExamples A synthesized speech segment sounds exactly the way the term suggests: synthetic. This sound cue, which lasts for one-tenth to one-fifth of a second, marks the transition from a consonant sound to a speech segment beginning with a vowel. There may certainly be independent grounds for categorizing segments as vowels or consonants, in terms of their inherent sonority and phonological dependence, for example. verb ˈsɛɡm(ə)ntsɛɡˈmɛntˈsɛɡmənt [with object] 1Divide (something) into separate parts or sections. 分割；划分 the unemployed are segmented into two groups 失业者划分为两类。 Example sentencesExamples The monopolist can segment market demand, and still certify white males as before. Their competitors also cannot segment their databases and offer tailored and targeted holidays to existing customers. For one thing, traditional consumer electronics companies attempt to segment the market. Analysts say that Taiwan's economy is segmented into two parts. Mohan Ram's collection was segmented into two genres, world cinema and Indian cinema. The recipes are segmented into nine chapters - meat, egg, fish, vegetables, rice, pickles, desserts, breakfast delights and teatime favourites. I'm not holding my breath, but they do need to segment supermarket and convenience trading. Outline writers segment the overall plot into weekly and then daily portions. At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes. The course is segmented into six different sections. How useful is it to segment the great movement out of nineteenth-century Europe into distinct ‘national’ migrations? The muscles of the body are segmented into blocks called myotomes. Broadly, the clothes are segmented into casual cottons and semi-corporate or office wear. Peat cutters had been at work, segmenting the bogs into little squares to extract their staple fuel. This will also allow companies to segment product lines in the manufacturing process with secure and non-secure versions. The next step in transforming the selling strategy was to segment the potential customer market. Each of these targets, along with others for ambulance response times, segments the timeline into intervals deemed controllable by the separate parts of the system. It is hard - although not impossible - for big banks to segment their services to appeal to different customers, he suggests. Synonyms divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember sever, segregate, divorce, partition, section, compartment share out, portion out, distribute 1.1no object Divide into separate parts or sections. 分割；划分 the market is beginning to segment into a number of well-defined categories 市场正在分化成明确的几类。 Example sentencesExamples As the educated class has grown, it has segmented. Would they factionalise and segment, or unify? If the bulbs have segmented into cloves which can be separated, it is time to harvest. 1.2Embryology no object (of a cell) undergo cleavage; divide into many cells. 〔胚〕（细胞）分裂 Derivatives segmentary adjective In Somali society, the segmentary lineage system allows subdivisions of six or more levels of identity, with migration decisions often taken at the sixth level. Example sentencesExamples Although political affiliation is fluid and shifts with changing circumstances, segmentary kinship guarantees every individual basic rights in a wider kinship network. These so-called segmentary systems are organised around a principle of opposition. Unconstrained by male segmentary politics, their differential affinity blurred lines of emnity, producing the prospect of continuing reconciliation. The tribal segmentary system thus fosters an ethic of egalitarianism with its expression found in the members of the corporate patrilineal descent groups. Origin Late 16th century (as a term in geometry): from Latin segmentum, from secare 'to cut'. The verb dates from the mid 19th century. insect from early 17th century: Insects have bodies that are divided into segments, and segments are the basic idea behind the word. Insect was formed in the 17th century from Latin animal insectum ‘segmented animal’, and originally referred to any small cold-blooded creature with a segmented body, for example, a spider, not just what we would call insects. The root word is secare ‘to cut’, which gave us dissect (late 16th century), section (Late Middle English), and segment (late 16th century). Rhymes absent, accent, anent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, content, dent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, lament, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, sent, spent, stent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, tent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went Definition of segment in US English: segment nounˈsɛɡmənt 1Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided. 部分；片段 Example sentencesExamples There are large segments of our society that do not have equal access and are being left behind. Following card games, video and computer games comprise the largest segment of the gaming community. Its genome is made up of 100 million bases divided into six segments, or chromosomes. Who can deny that today, organized crime dominates certain segments of the Bulgarian economy? Segmentation means dividing memory into several segments and accessing memory by both segment pointer and offset. Spinal implants continue to represent the fastest-growing segment of the global orthopedic market. Arrange the lemon, tangerine, and blood orange segments on top and around the mousse cake. The sympathetic nerve supply to the lung arises in the upper six thoracic segments of the spinal cord. Furthermore, the courtyard's pavement is divided into ten segments. Drug offenders are the fastest-growing segment of prison populations in the United States. Only about half the length of the duplicated segments corresponds closely with their genetic length. Arrange the blood orange segments over the top of the meringue in a decorative pattern. Acrylic is perhaps the fastest-growing segment of the glazing market. However, special attention must be paid to the donor chromosome segment around the target gene. Seminary education was divided into four segments, initial preparatory school being the only one which offered some Slavonic. Secondly, heritage tourism is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry. In many of the others, the spaces are divided into segments, more or less corresponding to the different generations. The overall growth of the SUV segment has come, in part, from a rising industry. Within the first chamber the first segment of the siphuncle appears. The researchers identified short segments of DNA that show up only in a specific species. Synonyms piece, part, bit, section, chunk, division, portion, slice, fragment, component, wedge, lump, slab, hunk, parcel, tranche subdivision, division, fraction, part, portion, section, constituent, element, unit, module, ingredient, slice, department, compartment, sector 1.1 A portion of time allocated to a particular broadcast item on radio or television. （特定广播或电视节目的）时间段 Example sentencesExamples The press no longer thinks yellow ribbons and support for soldiers is worthy of a few paragraphs or a segment on the ten o'clock news. There are two things that fill a newspaper or the news segment on TV or radio: news and advertising. Have you noticed, for example, how often segments on television news magazines deal with court cases? From the top of the hour news items on Today and 30-second segments on CNN, to the rotating videos, images of the deceased permeate. 2Geometry A part of a figure cut off by a line or plane intersecting it. 〔几何〕用线（或面）截得的部分图形，尤指 Example sentencesExamples For example, when we start with a hexagon, the final shape may be a segment, a triangle, or another hexagon. The main purpose of the work is to investigate the volume of segments of these three-dimensional figures. 2.1 The part of a circle enclosed between an arc and a chord. 弓形 Example sentencesExamples He found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression. Given partial information about a segment of a circle, how do you compute what you want to know? The chord of the segment is given, as is its area, and the student is asked to compute its height (the length of the perpendicular bisector of the chord to the circle). This he affected by circumscribing a semicircle about an isosceles right-angled triangle and a segment of a circle similar to those cut off by the sides. It is assumed that the unsupported outer border of the pouch deforms into a segment of a circle and that the material does not stretch much. 2.2 The part of a line included between two points. 线段 Example sentencesExamples Two similar problems were to trisect an angle and to produce a line segment whose square has the same area as that of a given circle. A system of three equations was derived using distances from three adjacent line segments drawn between vertices. Given the way that we have defined line segments, a great circle makes a good definition of a straight line. Newton gave a method of drawing the Cissoid of Diocles using two line segments of equal length at right angles. We can mark a point on the side that divides it into segments of length a and b. 2.3 The part of a sphere cut off by any plane not passing through the center. 球缺 Example sentencesExamples As in the treatment of Siegel, lipid monolayers in the intermediates are assumed to form surfaces that are segments of spheres or of spherical torroids. Using a different approach, Archimedes found the surface area of a sphere, and the surface area of any segment of a sphere. 3Zoology Each of the series of similar anatomical units of which the body and appendages of some animals are composed, such as the visible rings of an earthworm's body. 〔动〕体节；节 Example sentencesExamples They have a number of body segments (known as somites), which are sometimes fused to form rigid areas, or are free but linked to each other by flexible areas. This specimen cannot be specifically identified because it lacks the cephalon and first thoracic segment. Agnostids have only two or three segments between the cephalon and pygidium. The ventral branchial arch segments of placoderms are so poorly known that nothing useful can be said. Unlike the agnostids, polymerid trilobites typically have more than two or three thoracic segments, and the pygidium is usually smaller than the cephalon. 4Phonetics The smallest distinct part of a spoken utterance, in particular the vowels and consonants as opposed to stress and intonation. 〔语音学〕（元音、辅音的）切分成分 Example sentencesExamples A synthesized speech segment sounds exactly the way the term suggests: synthetic. There may certainly be independent grounds for categorizing segments as vowels or consonants, in terms of their inherent sonority and phonological dependence, for example. This sound cue, which lasts for one-tenth to one-fifth of a second, marks the transition from a consonant sound to a speech segment beginning with a vowel. verbˈsɛɡmənt [with object] 1Divide (something) into separate parts or sections. 分割；划分 the unemployed are segmented into two groups 失业者划分为两类。 Example sentencesExamples The muscles of the body are segmented into blocks called myotomes. Peat cutters had been at work, segmenting the bogs into little squares to extract their staple fuel. How useful is it to segment the great movement out of nineteenth-century Europe into distinct ‘national’ migrations? The course is segmented into six different sections. Mohan Ram's collection was segmented into two genres, world cinema and Indian cinema. Outline writers segment the overall plot into weekly and then daily portions. This will also allow companies to segment product lines in the manufacturing process with secure and non-secure versions. The monopolist can segment market demand, and still certify white males as before. Broadly, the clothes are segmented into casual cottons and semi-corporate or office wear. Each of these targets, along with others for ambulance response times, segments the timeline into intervals deemed controllable by the separate parts of the system. It is hard - although not impossible - for big banks to segment their services to appeal to different customers, he suggests. Their competitors also cannot segment their databases and offer tailored and targeted holidays to existing customers. I'm not holding my breath, but they do need to segment supermarket and convenience trading. Analysts say that Taiwan's economy is segmented into two parts. At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes. For one thing, traditional consumer electronics companies attempt to segment the market. The recipes are segmented into nine chapters - meat, egg, fish, vegetables, rice, pickles, desserts, breakfast delights and teatime favourites. The next step in transforming the selling strategy was to segment the potential customer market. Synonyms divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember 1.1no object Divide into separate parts or sections. 分割；划分 the market is beginning to segment into a number of well-defined categories 市场正在分化成明确的几类。 Example sentencesExamples If the bulbs have segmented into cloves which can be separated, it is time to harvest. Would they factionalise and segment, or unify? As the educated class has grown, it has segmented. 1.2Embryology no object (of a cell) undergo cleavage; divide into many cells. 〔胚〕（细胞）分裂 Origin Late 16th century (as a term in geometry): from Latin segmentum, from secare ‘to cut’. The verb dates from the mid 19th century.
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