Usually means: Part of a whole; section.
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We found 60 dictionaries that define the word segment:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. segment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. segment: Merriam-Webster
  3. segment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. segment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. segment: Collins English Dictionary
  6. segment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Segment, Segment, Segment, Segment, Segment, Segment, Segment, Segment: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. segment: Wiktionary
  9. segment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. segment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. segment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. segment: Dictionary.com
  13. segment (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. segment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Segment (biology), Segment (disambiguation), Segment (linguistics), Segment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Segment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. segment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. segment: Rhymezone
  19. segment, segment (het), segment (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. segment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. segment: FreeDictionary.org
  22. segment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. segment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. segment: Vocabulary.com
  25. Segment, segment: Wordnik

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Segment: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Segment: Investopedia
  5. Segment (broadcasting), Segment (disambiguation), segment: Legal dictionary
  6. Segment (broadcasting), Segment (disambiguation), segment: Financial dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. segment: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. segment: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. segment: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  4. Segment (Network), Segment (TCP): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Segment (broadcasting), Segment (disambiguation), Segment (geometry), Segment (mathematics), segment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. segment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Segment: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Segment (broadcasting), Segment (disambiguation), segment: Medical dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Segment: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. segment: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  6. Bryological (No longer online)
  7. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  8. segment: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  9. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. segment: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See segmentary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A length of some object.
noun:  One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
noun:  (mathematics) A portion.
noun:  A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
noun:  (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
noun:  (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
noun:  (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
noun:  (sciences) A portion.
noun:  (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
noun:  (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
noun:  (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
noun:  (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
noun:  (computing) An Ethernet bus.
noun:  (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
noun:  (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

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