One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object:
— Finished the final segment of the road.

synoniem: section.

Roget 51: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.    piece [Fr.], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop^†, slice, scale; lamina etc. 204; small part; morsel, particle etc. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share etc. (allotment) 786.    debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta^†; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part etc. 56; sarmentum^†.    compartment; department etc. (class) 75; county etc. (region) 181.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 527: information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge etc. 490; publicity etc. 531; data etc. 467.    communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqu_e; representation, round robin, presentment.    case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news etc. 532; return etc. (record) 551; account etc. (description) 594; statement etc. (affirmation) 535.    mention; acquainting etc. v.; instruction etc. (teaching) 537; outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.    informant, authority, teller, intelligencer^†, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece; informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard^†, spy, newsmonger; messenger etc. 534; amicus curiae [Lat.].    valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum [Lat.]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary etc. (journey) 266.    hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition^†, cue, byplay; gesture etc. (indication) 550; gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Lat.], a word to the wise; insinuation etc. (latency) 526.    information theory.    [units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword [Comp.], quad word, paragraph, segment.    [information storage media] magnetic media, paper medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: bolsegment, segment
Pools: segment

One of the parts into which something naturally divides.

Nederlands: geleding, metameer, segment

Divide into segments:
— Segment an orange.
— Segment a compound word.

synoniem: section.

Divide or split up.