All segment synonyms
segΒ·ment
S s noun segment
- wedge β a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
- minim β the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. Symbol: β, β. Abbreviation: min, min.;
- halver β A fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide.
- canto β a main division of a long poem
- morsel β a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc.
- halvers β Plural form of halver.
- longness β (rare) length, lengthiness.
- integer β Mathematics. one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero. Compare whole number.
- divider β a person or thing that divides.
- integers β Mathematics. one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero. Compare whole number.
- lengthiness β The property of being lengthy, longness.
- modules β Plural form of module.
- dividers β a person or thing that divides.
- leg β either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- length β the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- longitude β Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- building block β If you describe something as a building block of something, you mean it is one of the separate parts that combine to make that thing.
- extensiveness β The degree or property of being extensive.
- component β The components of something are the parts that it is made of.
- year β a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- installment β the act of installing.
- member β a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
- instalment β the act of installing.
- clove β Cloves are small dried flower buds used as a spice.
- cut β If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- fifty-fifty β equally good and bad, likely and unlikely, favorable and unfavorable, etc.: a fifty-fifty chance of winning.
- wing β either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- fraction β Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- ell β A former measure of length (equivalent to six hand breadths) used mainly for textiles, locally variable but typically about 45 inches.
- lap β the act of lapping liquid.
- zone β any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
- lastingness β The property of lasting; duration, permanence.
- exemplification β The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- division β the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- quotum β A part or proportion; a fraction; quota.
- meed β a reward or recompense.
- module β a separable component, frequently one that is interchangeable with others, for assembly into units of differing size, complexity, or function.
- bit β A bit of something is a small part or section of it.
verb segment
- dichotomized β Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
- factoring β one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- branching β the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- chiv β a knife
- dissever β to sever; separate.
- divide β to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- break down β If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- dichotomize β to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- abscind β to cut off
- measure out β a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.