Segment Meaning
/ˈsɛɡ.mənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA length of some object.
nounOne of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
Sentence Examples
Many firms are competing for the wealthier segment of the market.
Divide this line segment into twenty equal parts.
She cleaned a small segment of the painting.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The chef sliced the orange into eight equal ____ for the children to share.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The marketing team divided the audience into distinct ____ based on age and income.
Word Origin & History
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
"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."
— 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
"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."
— 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The chef sliced the orange into eight equal ____ for the children to share.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The marketing team divided the audience into distinct ____ based on age and income.