Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SEGMENT

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Definitions of SEGMENT

1. A length of some object.
2. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
3. (mathematics) A portion.
4. (science) A portion.
5. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
6. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
7. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
8. (travel) 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.
9. (ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

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Examples of Using SEGMENT in a Sentence

• These include the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution, the volume of a segment of a hyperboloid of revolution, and the area of a spiral.
• An afterglow in meteorology consists of several atmospheric optical phenomena, with a general definition as a broad arch of whitish or pinkish sunlight in the twilight sky, consisting of the bright segment and the purple light.
• The circumference is the arc length of the circle, as if it were opened up and straightened out to a line segment.
• In mathematics, the Cantor set is a set of points lying on a single line segment that has a number of unintuitive properties.
• The length of a line segment connecting two points on the circle and passing through the centre is called the diameter.
• In geometry, a set of points is convex if it contains every line segment between two points in the set.
• The square, dome-like segment of a North American railroad train caboose that contains the second-level or "angel" seats is also called a cupola.
• The question of which scope of a subset of DNA (that is, how large a segment of DNA) constitutes a unit of selection is the question that governs whether cistrons are the same thing as genes.
• A point is constructible if it can be produced as one of the points of a compass and straightedge construction (an endpoint of a line segment or crossing point of two lines or circles), starting from a given unit length segment.
• In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.
• D!NG (previously Do Online Now Guys, or DONG), a YouTube channel created and hosted by Michael Stevens as a segment of the Vsauce, Vsauce2, Vsauce3 and WeSauce channels.
• For instance, the Hausdorff dimension of a single point is zero, of a line segment is 1, of a square is 2, and of a cube is 3.
• Operationally, the station is divided into two sections: the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) assembled by Roscosmos, and the US Orbital Segment (USOS), assembled by NASA, JAXA, ESA and CSA.
• Latvia's defense concept is based on a mobile, professional rapid response force and a reserve segment that can be called upon relatively fast for mobilization should the need arise.
• "The Spanish Inquisition" is an episode and recurring segment in the British sketch comedy TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus, specifically series 2 episode 2 (first broadcast 22 September 1970), that satirises the Spanish Inquisition.
• The Mackinac Bridge is part of Interstate 75 (I-75) and carries the Lake Michigan and Huron components of the Great Lakes Circle Tour across the straits; it is also a segment of the U.
• A MAC address (short for medium access control address or media access control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment.
• The structure of a nucleosome consists of a segment of DNA wound around eight histone proteins and resembles thread wrapped around a spool.
• The set of natural numbers is a proper subset of the set of rational numbers; likewise, the set of points in a line segment is a proper subset of the set of points in a line.
• Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the disciplines included.
• In telecommunications an aerial insert is a segment of cabling that rises from ground to a point above ground, followed by an overhead run, e.
• Breaking of a continuous curve into a series of straight line segments and specifying the slope, intercept, and range for each segment.
• Each segment of the approximated signal is compared to the preceding bits and the successive bits are determined by this comparison.
• For example, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) implements a connection-oriented transfer mode, and the PDU of this protocol is called a segment, while the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) uses datagrams as protocol data units for connectionless communication.
• Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, the song is a six-minute suite, notable for its lack of a refraining chorus and consisting of several sections: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda.

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