- 1a 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.
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2one of the sections of an orange, a lemon, etc.
- 3(geometry) a part of a circle separated from the rest by a single line
- 4(geometry) a part of a straight line between two points
- 5(phonetics) the smallest speech sound that a word can be divided into
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