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What (who) is segment - definition
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Segmentation; Segments; Segment (disambiguation); Segmentation (disambiguation); Segment (mathematics); Segment (geometry)
Segment
·noun A segment gear.
II. Segment ·noun One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
III. Segment ·noun One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
IV. Segment ·vi To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
V. Segment ·noun 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.
VI. Segment ·noun 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.
VII. Segment ·noun 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.
segment
n.
Portion, section, part.
segment
['s?gm(?)nt]
¦ noun
1. each of the parts into which something is or may be divided.
2. Geometry a part of a circle cut off by a chord, or a part of a sphere cut off by a plane not passing through the centre.
3. Phonetics the smallest distinct part of a spoken utterance, especially with regard to vowel and consonant sounds.
4. Zoology each of a series of similar anatomical units of which the body and appendages of some animals are composed.
¦ verb usu. s?g'm?nt
1. divide into segments.
2. Embryology (of a cell) undergo cleavage.
Derivatives
segmentary adjective
segmentation noun
segmented adjective
Origin
C16: from L. segmentum, from secare 'to cut'.
Examples of use of segment
1. Revenues from the Electricity Segment rose 12% and the Products Segment produced a 71% increase, the company said.
2. Another segment betrays Gore‘s left wing credentials.
3. Measured according to this, the US government‘s main function now is redistribution: taking money from one segment of the population and giving it to another segment.
4. Sales in the A1 segment declined 11.4 per cent at 17,''4 units during the quarter while sales in the C segment jumped 22.7 per cent at 20,631 units, in the A2 segment by 20.7 per cent at 1,10,413 units and in the A3 segment by 46 per cent at 11,056 units, it said.
5. The company sold 24,044 units in the A1 segment (Santro and Getz), 4,0'4 units in the A2 segment (Accent and Verna), ' units in the A3 segment (Elantra), 34 units in A4 segment (Sonata) and 22 units of its SUV Tuscon, the statement said.