English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of segment

segment

/noun/ खंड; भाग; टुकड़ा; वृत्त-खंड; अनुभाग;

Synonym section; part; fragment; quadrant; book section;

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English Dictionary:

1. Segment

[n.]

- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
- A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
- A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
- A segment gear.
- One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
- One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

2. Segment

[v. i.]

- To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.