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- pronunciation:
- seg
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noun |
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A segment is a particular part of something that seems separate or different from the rest, or it's a part that has become separate from the rest of it. Oranges and grapefruits are things that have segments. If you take the peel off an orange, you can see the different segments all attached in a kind of ball, but you can pull different segments away and eat each one separately.
My mom makes a salad with segments of grapefruit in it. It's not my favorite salad.This segment of the insect's body is its abdomen.The large tree trunk was cut into segments and each one was loaded onto the truck.Only a small segment of the population can afford an expensive car like that.- synonyms:
- part, piece, portion, section
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| related words: |
act, part |
| derivation: |
segmentary (adj.) |
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