segment
A length of some object.
Example
“a segment of rope”
Other meanings
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
“a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf”
A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
Synonyms
- section
Kinds of segment
- bend
- leaf
- length
- straight
- subdivision
Related words
- seven-segment
- bisegment
- segment cell
- diplosegment
- haplosegment
- hemisegment
- intersegment
- intrasegment
- macrosegment
- microsegment
- midsegment
- monosegment
Word history
From Latin "segmentum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “segment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.