Definition of segment
- n. - One of the parts into which any body naturally separates
or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a
segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
- n. - A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane;
especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc
of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord;
as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
- n. - A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of
a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
- n. - A segment gear.
- n. - One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in
egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
- n. - One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many
animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
- v. i. - To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo
segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.