Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Divided into or made up of distinct segments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Divided into segments, segmenta, or segmentella; characterized by or exhibiting segmentation; somitic; metameric: thus, the body of a vertebrate is segmented according to the number of vertebræ whether any actual division of parts may be evident or not.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
segment . - adjective Having or made of
segments .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters
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Examples
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This time, it wasn't all bad news – BRITNEY SPEARS SPLIT UP STEPS read one recent headline – but there were reports that tickets for her Birmingham show had sold so poorly that the promoters had been forced to indulge in what they called "segmented marketing to reach new customers", which turned out to mean knocking £25 off the ticket price.
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This involves some pretty radical lifestyle shifts but when it is done my work life should be better segmented from the rest of my life.
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The LV endocardium was segmented from the short-axis images at the times of isovolumetric contraction
BioMed Central - Latest articles Jonatan Eriksson 2010
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The LV endocardium was segmented from the short-axis images at the times of isovolumetric contraction
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The LV endocardium was segmented from the short-axis images at the times of isovolumetric contraction
BioMed Central - Latest articles Jonatan Eriksson 2010
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The LV endocardium was segmented from the short-axis images at the times of isovolumetric contraction
BioMed Central - Latest articles Jonatan Eriksson 2010
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In a subsequent experiment, the researchers found that introducing a single species of microbe, known as segmented filamentous bacteria, rapidly accelerated the onset of arthritis, which the addition of other bacteria species did not.
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The concept is not entirely dissimilar to the idea of segmented or compartmentalized structures used in modern ship hulls or gasoline tanker trucks.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
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The concept is not entirely dissimilar to the idea of segmented or compartmentalized structures used in modern ship hulls or gasoline tanker trucks.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
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The microbes belong to a group called segmented filamentous bacteria.
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