segment

nounpart of something

Word Origin & History

1560s, from Latin segmentum "a strip or piece cut off, a cutting, strips of colored cloth," from secare "to cut" (see section (n.)), with euphonious alteration of -c- to -g- before -m-. Latin segmentum was used in Medieval Latin as a geometry term, translating Greek tmema, and the word was first picked up in English in this sense. Meaning "segmental portion of anything circular" is from 1640s; general sense of "a division, section" is from 1762.

Example Sentences for segment

But this romanticism is, as it were, a segment of the larger circle of idealism.

Small as the segment of humanity is, it is a type of the great world to which it belongs.

Maxillary segment: the sixth segment of the head, bearing the maxillae.

Excavate: with a depression that is not the segment of a circle.

Joint: a segment or part between two incisures: an articulation.

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