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# segment

«segment» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the parts something is divided into, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a segment, segments) — said "SEG-ment"; verb (segment, segments, segmented, segmenting) — said "seg-MENT"

### meaning for a pupil

1) A segment is one of the parts something is divided into, like a segment of an orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#m1)

2) In maths, a line segment is the part of a line between two end points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#m2)

3) A segment of a circle is the part cut off by a straight line (a chord). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#m3)

4) A segment of a TV or radio show is one part of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#m4)

5) (verb) To segment means to divide into parts; in phonics, to segment a word means to split it into its sounds: c-a-t. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, line segments have length that you can measure; triangles have three line segments as sides. In science, insects and worms have bodies made of segments. In reading, pupils segment words into sounds to spell them. Phrases: line segment, segment of an orange, body segment, a short segment.

### examples

- I ate an orange segment by segment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#x1)
- Draw a line segment 6 centimetres long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#x2)
- The orange had 10 segments, so 5 children got 2 each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#x3)
- A worm's body is made of many segments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#x4)
- A triangle has three line segments for sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#x5)
- Segment the word "ship" into sounds: sh-i-p. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#x6)
- The news had a short segment on the school fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/#x7)

### note

Countable. Noun stressed on the first part (SEG-ment), verb often on the second. In maths, a line goes on for ever both ways, a ray has one end, and a line segment has two ends. A circle segment is not the same as a sector (a "pizza slice" from the centre).

### In the corpora

- [Centipedes are fast hunters with one pair of legs on each body segment and venom claws to catch insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/12/)
- [Blending is pushing sounds together to read a word; segmenting is splitting a word into its sounds to spell it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «segment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/segment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.