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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Segment \Seg"ment\, verb (used without an object) (Biol.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Segment \Seg"ment\, noun [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}, noun, 5.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
segment
noun
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" [syn: {section}]
2: one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange"
verb
1: divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" [syn: {section}]
2: divide or split up; "The cells segmented"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "segment": adjunct, affiliation, air line, allotment, allowance, analyze, anatomize, apportion, assay, axis, beeline, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, body, branch, break down, break up, budget, categorize, chord, chunk, church, cleave, commission, communion, community, component, contingent, cross section, cut, cut up, deal, denomination, destiny, detachment, detail, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, dissect, district, divide, divide up, dividend, division, divvy, divvy up, dole, edge, element, end, equal share, faction, fate, fellowship, fraction, fragment, great-circle course, group, half, halver, helping, installment, interest, isolate, item, joint, length, lot, measure, meed, member, mess, modicum, moiety, normal, offshoot, order, organization, parcel, parcel out, part, particular, partition, party, percentage, perpendicular, persuasion, piece, portion, proportion, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, radius, radius vector, rake-off, random sample, ration, reduce, reduce to elements, religious order, remainder, resolve, right line, sample, sampling, schism, school, secant, seclude, sect, sectarism, section, sector, separate, set off, share, shortcut, side, slice, small share, society, split, split up, stake, stock, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, subdivide, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, tangent, transversal, variety, vector, version, wedge, zone
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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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