segment
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈsɛɡ.mənt//
- Royaume-Uni//sɛɡˈmɛnt//
- États-Unis//ˈsɛɡmɛnt//
A length of some object.
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A length of some object.
a segment of rope
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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
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.
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A portion. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
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A portion. The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
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A portion. The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
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A portion. Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
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A portion. A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
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A portion. A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
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.
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A portion. One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
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A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
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.
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An Ethernet bus.
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A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
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A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
Étymologie
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
verbe
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To divide into segments or sections.
Segment the essay by topic.
Formes
- pluriel
- segments
- passé
- segmented
- participe passé
- segmented
- participe présent
- segmenting
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- segments