SEGMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does segment mean? 

• SEGMENT (noun)
  The noun SEGMENT has 2 senses:

1. one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object

2. one of the parts into which something naturally divides

  Familiarity information: SEGMENT used as a noun is rare.

• SEGMENT (verb)
  The verb SEGMENT has 2 senses:

1. divide into segments

2. divide or split up

  Familiarity information: SEGMENT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEGMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

section; segment

Context example:

finished the final segment of the road

Hypernyms ("segment" is a kind of...):

part; portion (something less than the whole of a human artifact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "segment"):

bend; curve (curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.))

dado (the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase)

leaf (hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door))

length (a section of something that is long and narrow)

straight; straightaway (a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse)

subdivision; subsection (a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided)

Holonyms ("segment" is a part of...):

unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)

Derivation:

segment (divide into segments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the parts into which something naturally divides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

a segment of an orange

Hypernyms ("segment" is a kind of...):

part; piece (a portion of a natural object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "segment"):

metamere; somite (one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally)

sarcomere (one of the segments into which a myofibril is divided)

section (a segment of a citrus fruit)

internode (a segment of a stem between two nodes)

Derivation:

segment (divide or split up)

segment (divide into segments)

• SEGMENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they segment ... he / she / it segments
Past simple: segmented   
Past participle: segmented   
-ing form: segmenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divide into segments

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

section; segment

Context example:

segment a compound word

Hypernyms (to "segment" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Verb group:

segment (divide or split up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "segment"):

syllabicate; syllabify; syllabise; syllabize (divide into syllables)

quarter (divide into quarters)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

segment (one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object)

segment (one of the parts into which something naturally divides)

segmentation (the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Divide or split up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The cells segmented

Hypernyms (to "segment" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Verb group:

section; segment (divide into segments)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

segment (one of the parts into which something naturally divides)

 Context examples 

It corresponds to the inferior part of the lower third topographic segment of the esophagus.

(Abdominal Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

The minimum elevation of the ST segment, obtained from a set of measurements of the elevation of the ST segment.

(Minimum ST Segment Elevation, NCI Thesaurus)

Couinaud segment I, located on the posterior surface of the liver between the sulcus for the vena cava and the ligamentum venosum.

(Caudate Lobe, NCI Thesaurus)

This lesion was found to have lost a segment of chromosome 6 that includes a gene known as HLA-C*0802.

(Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation, NIH)

In a study, researchers used DNA barcoding, a genetic tool able to analyses short segments of about 650 base pairs of the mitochondrial genome, for distinguishing different species of sharks.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

The middle segment of the fallopian tube.

(Ampullary Segment of the Fallopian Tube, NCI Thesaurus)

The genome is composed of a linear, non-segmented single-strand of positive sense RNA.

(Astroviridae, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of a pattern of right bundle branch block and ST-segment elevation within electrocardiogram leads V1-V3.

(Brugada Syndrome Ventricular Arrhythmia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

These openings grew in size, the segments diminished.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The genome is composed of non-segmented, double-stranded DNA.

(Parapoxvirus, NCI Thesaurus)