segment
/ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
noun
A portion.
noun
A portion.
noun
A portion.
noun
A portion.
noun
A portion.
noun
A portion.
Example Sentences
- "a segment of rope"
- "a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf"
- "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read."
- "In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified."
- "The news showed a segment on global warming."
- "In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
- British English: /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.