2. Noun. (third-person singular of segment) ¹
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Definition of Segments
1. segment [v] - See also: segment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Segments
Literary usage of Segments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"Pencils of segments and directions. The notion of a ray belongs ... A set of all
segments having a common end and lying in the same plane is called a pencil ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"THE THORAX THE segments OF THE THORAX The prothorax, the mesothorax, and the
metathorax.—The thorax is the second or intermediate region of the body; ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The pupa, with four free abdominal segments in the female and five in the male,
... The female pupa has three, the male four free abdominal segments. ..."
4. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Length up to 30 cm., with about 180 segments; color purplish; clitellum on segments
31 or 32 to 37: in wet places; Europe and America. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"I found that the number of segments formed within equal lengths of time decreases
the more the time that has elapsed since the operation was performed. ..."
6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Leaves finely dissected into filiform segments. Ribs of the fruit equal, ...
Leaves pinnately compound; segments linear. Leaves pinnate; the segments ..."
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