Segment

(noun.) one of the parts into which something naturally divides; 'a segment of an orange'.

(verb.) divide or split up; 'The cells segmented'.

(verb.) divide into segments; 'segment an orange'; 'segment a compound word'.

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• In 1806 Gladstone devised a front-draft, side-cut machine, in which a curved segment-bar with fingers gathered the grain and held it while a horizontally revolving knife cut the same. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• As armature, commutator, and shaft rotate, the brushes connect first with one segment of the commutator and then with the other. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• An outer segment fell and he picked it up and bent the circle together and put it into the sandwich. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Five of these slide on the longest segment of the rod and the remaining one on the shorter. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In the latter operation the ball lies loose in the center of the segment, which must be sawed in half to release it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• How can he prove to me, for instance, that two right lines cannot have one common segment? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• There are defects discovered only when the ball is being turned or the segments cut. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Similarly, touching the wire one fourth of its length from an end makes it vibrate in four segments; touching it one fifth of its length makes it vibrate in five segments. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Each lens consists of concentric segments, see Fig. 46, 190 in number, surrounding a central disk, which together cause the rays to issue in parallel lines. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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