segment

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈsɛɡ.mənt/    /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A length of some object.
    — a segment of rope
  2. 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
  3. A portion.; A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
  4. A portion.; The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
  5. A portion.; The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
  6. A portion.; Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
  7. A portion.; A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
    — The news showed a segment on global warming.
  11. An Ethernet bus.
  12. A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
  13. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To divide into segments or sections. ambitransitive
    — Segment the essay by topic.

词形变化

segments plural segments present,singular,third-person segmenting participle,present segmented participle,past segmented past

词源

词源 1
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
词源 2
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
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