segment

n.

1. Any of the parts into which something can be divided: segments of the community; a segment of a television program.
2. Mathematics.
   1. The portion of a line between any two points on the line.
   2. The area bounded by a chord and the arc of a curve subtended by the chord.
   3. The portion of a sphere cut off by two parallel planes.
3. Biology. A clearly differentiated subdivision of an organism or part, such as a metamere.

tr. & intr.v., -ment·ed, -ment·ing, -ments. (sĕg-mĕnt')

To divide or become divided into segments.

[Latin segmentum, from secāre, to cut.]

segmentary seg'men·tar'y (-mən-tĕr'ē) adj.

(1) Any partition, reserved area, partial component or piece of a larger structure. See overlay.

(2) One of the bars that make up a single character in an LED or LCD display.

(3) For DOS segment addressing, see paragraph.

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A component of a business that is or will generate revenues and costs related to operations. Financial information should be available for a segment's activities and performance and must also be periodically reviewed by the company's management before a decision can be made regarding the amount of capital that will be given to the segment for a particular operating period.

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For accounting purposes, FASB's SFAS 131 is the definitive source when it comes to accounting practices involving segments.

An example of a segment would be XYZ Corp.'s widget division because it generates its own revenue as a result of selling widgets and incurs expenses as a result of the costs involved with producing this product.

Keep in mind that not every component of a company constitutes a segment. For example, XYZ Corp.'s marketing division would not be considered a segment because it does not perform operations that directly earn revenue.

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Functional or responsibility area within a business that can be reported upon separately. The assets, revenue, and earnings of a segment are operationally distinguishable. Examples of business segments are division, department, product line, and geographic area. See also Segment Reporting.

noun

1. One of the parts into which something is divided: division, member, part, piece, portion, section, subdivision. See part/whole.
2. A part severed from a whole: cut, piece, portion, section, slice. See part/whole.
3. A particular subdivision of a written work: part, passage, section. See part/whole.

verb

To make a division into parts, sections, or branches: break up, dissever, divide, part, partition, section, separate. See assemble/disassemble, part/whole.

n

Definition: part of something
Antonyms: whole

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To experience a segmentation fault. Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun ‘segment’ than like mainstream v. segment; this is because it is actually a noun shorthand that has been verbed.

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n

Any of the parts into which a body naturally separates or is divided, either actually or by an imaginary line.

Plane figure contained by a straight line and part of the circumference of a circle. A segmental arch is therefore the shape of a segment, formed by its centre far below the springing-line of the arch.

A demarcated portion of a whole.

• bronchopulmonary s. — one of the subdivisions of the lobe of a lung, sometimes separated from others by a connective tissue septum and supplied by its own branch of the bronchus leading to the particular lobe.
• hepatic s's — subdivisions of the hepatic lobes based on arterial and biliary supply and venous drainage.

IN BRIEF: One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.

The first segment of the movie was boring, however, I enjoyed the second half.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - segment, del, stykke, udsnit, afsnit
v. tr. - segmentere, leddele
v. intr. - segmentere, leddele

Nederlands (Dutch)
segment, zich splijten, verdelen

Français (French)
n. - (Anat, Comput, Math, Ling, Zool) segment, secteur (de marché), part (de population), quartier (d'orange)
v. tr. - segmenter, couper en quartiers
v. intr. - segmenter, couper en quartiers

Deutsch (German)
n. - Segment, Abschnitt, Schnitz
v. - aufteilen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τμήμα/τομέας (κύκλου), (βιολ.) μεταμερίδιο
v. - (κατα)τέμνω/-ομαι

Italiano (Italian)
segmento, fetta, spicchio, anello, segmentare, riprodursi per scissione o divisione (biol.)

Português (Portuguese)
n. - segmento (m)
v. - segmentar

Русский (Russian)
часть, сектор, сегмент, пластина коллектора, делить на части, делиться на части

Español (Spanish)
n. - segmento
v. tr. - segmentar, dividir en segmentos
v. intr. - segmentarse

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - segment, del, avsnitt
v. - segmentera, dela upp

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
部分, 切片, 断片, 部门, 线段, 分割, 切割, 分割成部分, 切成片

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 部分, 切片, 斷片, 部門, 線段
v. tr. - 分割, 切割
v. intr. - 分割成部分, 切成片

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 단편, (직선의) 선분, (방송 등의) 한 프로
v. tr. - 분할하다, 분열하다, 나누다
v. intr. - 분할하다, 분열시키다, 나누어지다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 区切り, 区分, 部分, 線分, 弧, 体節, 切片
v. - 分ける, 分割する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قسم, قطعه, ألقطعه ألدائريه (فعل) يتفصص, ينفصل ألى قطع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קטע, פלח, מקטע (בהנדסה)‬
v. tr. - ‮חילק לקטעים‬
v. intr. - ‮התחלק‬

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