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(1):

(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.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(n.) A segment gear.

(6):

(n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

(7):

(n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Segment'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/segment.html. 1828.
 
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