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English Dictionary: Segment by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
segment
n
  1. one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"
    Synonym(s): section, segment
  2. one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange"
v
  1. divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
    Synonym(s): segment, section
  2. divide or split up; "The cells segmented"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Segment \Seg"ment\, n. [L. segmentum, fr. secare to cut, cut
      off: cf. F. segment. See {Saw} a cutting instrument.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. (Geom.) 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.
  
      3. (Mach.)
            (a) 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.
            (b) A segment gear.
  
      4. (Biol.)
            (a) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation,
                  as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
            (b) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many
                  animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a
                  somatome.
  
      {Segment gear}, a piece for receiving or communicating
            reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of
            a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the
            periphery, or face.
  
      {Segment of a line}, the part of a line contained between two
            points on it.
  
      {Segment of a sphere}, the part of a sphere cut off by a
            plane, or included between two parallel planes.
  
      {Ventral segment}. (Acoustics) See {Loor}, n., 5.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Segment \Seg"ment\, v. i. (Biol.)
      To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo
      segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the
      ovum.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   segment /seg'ment/ vi.   To experience a {segmentation fault}.
   Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun `segment'
   than like mainstream v. segment; this is because it is actually a
   noun shorthand that has been verbed.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   segment
  
      /seg'ment/ 1. A collection of {pages} in a
      {memory management} system.
  
      2. A separately relocatable section of an
      executable program.   {Unix} executables have a {text segment}
      (executable machine instructions), a {data segment}
      (initialised data) and a {bss segment} (uninitialised data).
  
      3. {network segment}.
  
      4. To experience a {segmentation fault}.   Confusingly, the stress
      is often put on the first syllable, like the noun "segment",
      rather than the second like mainstream verb "segment".   This
      is because it is actually a noun shorthand that has been
      verbed.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1994-12-15)
  
  
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