Word Meanings - SEGMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. A piece in the

Additional info about word: SEGMENT

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. 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. A segment gear. One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation. One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome. Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face. -- Segment of a line, the part of a line contained between two points on it. -- Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes. -- Ventral segment. See Loor, n., 5. (more info) 1. 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.

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• CHORD
  A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord. (more info) 1. The string of a musical instrument. Milton.
• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CHORDEE
  A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• SEGMENT
  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. A piece in the
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• CIRCLE
  An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• SEGMENTATION
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• CHORDATA
  A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• CHORDAL
  Of or pertaining to a chord.
• HEPTACHORD
  A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. Moore (more info) A system of seven sounds. A lyre with seven chords.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• MONOCHORD
  An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of
• UROCHORDAL
  Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• INCIRCLE
  See ENCIRCLE
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• PARACHORDAL
  Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord. -- n.
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.