segment
Other forms: segments; segmented; segmenting
A segment is one of several pieces that together create a whole. You could offer a segment of your orange to your girlfriend as a Valentine's Day gift. She’ll probably enjoy the orange, but she may break up with you.
Lots of things can have segments. You can talk about a segment of a talk show, a segment of a sphere, or the segment of students in your high school who want to join the Drama Club — the ones singing and dancing in the cafeteria every day. You can also use segment as a verb: when you chop down that oak tree in your front yard, you have to segment the trunk into smaller pieces for firewood.
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one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object“finished the final segment of the road”synonyms: sectiontypes:dadothe section of a pedestal between the base and the surbaseleafhinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)lengtha section of something that is long and narrowsubdivision, subsectiona section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divideddrop-leafa hinged leaf on a table that can be raised and supported by a bracketelbowa sharp bend in a road or riverhairpin benda U-shaped bend in a roadstretcha straightaway section of a racetrack
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one of the parts into which something naturally divides
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the part of a line between any two pointstype of:linea length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
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the area of a circle bounded by a chord and an arc of the circle
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divide into segments
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divide or split up
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Vocabulary lists containing segment
The sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson will need resourcefulness, courage, and strength in order to stay alive.
Edge: Level A, Volume 1, Unit 2, Cluster 1. Here are links to the other clusters within Unit 2: "Genes: All in the Family" and "How to See DNA", "Do Family Meals Matter?" and "Fish Cheeks", "Only Daughter" and "Calling a Foul"
Vocabulary from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."