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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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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. |
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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. |
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A segment gear. |
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One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in
egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation. |
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One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many
animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome. |
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To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo
segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum. |
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