Look up: segment

1. Segment
   A link or line defined by two consecutive coordinates in a line string.
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2. segment
   [n] - one of the parts into which something naturally divides 2. [v] - divide into segments 3. [v] - divide or split up
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3. Segment
   Body divisions, the first three being the thorax, the others abdominal.
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4. Segment
   (NETWORK GLOSSARY) TCP specification for a single transport layer unit of information.
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5. Segment
   In Vutrax, any straight line or track between two 'points'
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6. Segment
   A portion of a specific part of the body. The spinal cord is split up into many segments. These segments can be grouped into four categories according to their position down the cord. Running from the top of the cord to the bottom are 8 ‘cervical` segments, 12 ‘thoracic` segments, 5 ââ...
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7. Segment
   to break a word or part of a word down into its component phonemes, for example: c-a-t; ch-a-t; ch-ar-t; g-r-ou-n-d; s-k-i-n.
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8. segment
   a self-contained portion of a computer program that may be executed without the entire computer program necessarily being maintained in the internal storage at any time; 2)a set of data that can be placed anywhere in a memory and can be addressed relative to a common origin. The origin and number of...
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9. Segment
   Part of a circle smaller than a semicircle.
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10. Segment
    The small rings that surround the length of the earthworm`s body. They are simply folds in the skin.
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11. Segment
    Seg'ment noun [ Latin segmentum , from secare to cut, cut off: confer French segment . See Saw a cutting instrument.] 1. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut of...
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12. Segment
    Seg'ment intransitive verb (Biol.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
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13. segment
    <biology> A portion of a larger body or structure, set off by natural or arbitrarily established boundaries. ... Origin: L. Segmentum = a piece cut off ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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14. segment
    noun one of the parts into which something naturally divides; `a segment of an orange`
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15. segment
    (seg´mәnt) a demarcated portion of a whole. adj., segmen´tal., adj. behavior segment the smallest descriptive unit of a response to a stimulus. bronchopulmonary segments the smaller subdivisions of the lobe of a lung; each segment is separate...
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16. Segment
    • (n.) A segment gear. • (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.) One of the cells o...
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17. segment
    (from the article `computer science`) ...large block of contiguous memory space (perhaps even larger than real memory), when in actuality most of their work is on auxiliary storage ...
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18. segment
    (from the article `culture`) ...is defined as one of an indefinite number of groupings each of which differs in composition from the other or others, such as men and women; ...
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19. segment
    (L. segmentum a piece cut off) a portion of a larger body or structure, set off by natural or arbitrarily established boundaries.
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20. Segment
    [linguistics] In linguistics (specifically, phonetics and phonology), the term segment may be defined as "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech." == Classifying speech units == Segments are called "discrete" because they are separa...
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21. segment
    /seg'ment/ 1. (architecture) A collection of pages in a memory management system. 2. (programming) A separately relocatable section of an executable program. Unix executables have a text segment (executable machine instructions), a data segment (initialised data) and a bss segment (uninitialised da...
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22. Segment
    [handwriting] A segment of handwriting is a piece of the pen-tip trajectory between two defined segmentation points. If the occurrence of a minimum in the absolute (tangential) velocity is used as a heuristic for segmentation, the pen-tip trajectory can be subdivided into segments correspond...
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23. Segment
    Segment may mean: Computing Geometry Science ...
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24. Segment
    Portion of a list or file selected on the basis of a special set of characteristics.
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25. segment
    portion of a television field or associated audio signal or auxiliary data which is digitally processed as a unit group of data for recording and recorded in a unit scan of the scanning system
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