segment
segment
noun
OPAL W
/ˈseɡmənt/
1 a part of something that is separate from the other parts or can be considered separately
She cleaned a small segment of the painting.
Lines divided the area into segments.
The changes will affect only a small segment of the population.
They divided the bone into equal segments.
TOPICS Maths and measurement C1
2 one of the sections of an orange, a lemon, etc.
TOPICS Food C2
3 (geometry) a part of a circle separated from the rest by a single line
​4 (phonetics) the smallest speech sound that a word can be divided into
Word Origin
late 16th cent. (as a term in geometry): from Latin segmentum, from secare ‘to cut’. The verb dates from the mid 19th cent.