Literary notes about segment (AI summary)
The word "segment" is employed as a versatile term to denote a distinct portion or subdivision of a larger whole, whether in tangible or abstract contexts. In technical and scientific writing, it is used to describe parts of physical structures—such as anatomical divisions in organisms ([1], [2], [3]) or specific sections of mechanical and geometric figures ([4], [5], [6]). In literary and descriptive prose, "segment" can evoke a fragment of time or space, from a brief piece cut from a video ([7]) to a sliver of the horizon or a shimmering fragment of the moon ([8], [9]). Additionally, its application in digital and coded language underscores its capacity to denote defined blocks of information ([10], [11]), demonstrating the term’s wide-ranging adaptability in literature.
- 35 Centipedes (Chilopoda) Elongated, segmented body Fifteen or more pairs of legs One pair of legs per segment
— from Life in the Shifting Dunes A popular field guide to the natural history of Castle Neck, Ipswich, Massachusetts by Laurence B. White - Its head is yellow striped with black; its body is white with narrow black and yellow cross-stripes on each {103} segment.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - It is, however, characteristic of the Crustacea as a whole to lack appendages on the anal segment.
— from The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites by Percy E. (Percy Edward) Raymond - The area of a sector of a circle is measured by half of the product of the arc by the radius.—Measure of the area of a segment of a circle.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - To describe, on a given line, a segment of a circle capable of containing a given angle.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Ark , sb. segment of a circle, C2, MD.—OF. arc ; Lat. arcum (acc.), a bow.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The video was taken down for a week and he was eventually forced to remove the segment of their video from his work.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle - Presently the moon cleared the edge of the sea, a segment of frozen light, and moored to our stern with a quivering, ghostly line.
— from London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson - It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - A segment contains up to sixty-four characters and/or carriage returns.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - | One data 'packet' or segment contains up to 64 characters.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
