segmentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).

発音

noun

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: sĕgʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/

  verb

  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /sɛɡˈmɛnt/
  • (米国発音) enPR: sĕgʹmĕnt, sĕg-mĕntʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/, /sɛɡˈmɛnt/

名詞

segment (複数形 segments)

1. A length of some object.

   a segment of rope

2. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

   Synonyms: cleft, clove

   a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf

   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

3. (mathematics) A portion.
   1. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
   2. (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
   3. (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
   4. (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
4. (sciences) A portion.
   1. (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
   2. (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
      • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

        In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

   3. (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
5. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

   The news showed a segment on global warming.

   • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name):

     In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.

6. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
7. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
8. (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
9. (heraldry) A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.

同意語

• (part または section of a whole): lith
• (straight path): line segment
• (area of a circle): circular segment

下位語

派生語

• seven-segment

関連する語

• seven-segment display

関連する語

動詞

segment (三人称単数 現在形 segments, 現在分詞 segmenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 segmented)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

   Segment the essay by topic.

下位語

• supreme

Further reading

• segment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “segment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.