segment B2 Topic:Business & Commerce US /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/ UK /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/ See IPA manual Freq #12761 Meanings 1 noun one of the parts that something is divided into She peeled the orange and ate one segment. 2 noun a separate part of a broadcast, market, or group The show ended with a segment on healthy cooking. 3 verb to divide something into separate parts The company segments its customers by age. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · one of the parts that... section 3 verb · to divide something into... section Word family Forms segmentedsegmentingsegments Derived forms bisegmentdiplosegmenthaplosegmenthemisegmentintersegmentintrasegmentmacrosegmentmicrosegmentmidsegmentmonosegmentmultisegmentoversegment Related forms secantsectsectionsectorsegmentationsomite Common collocations line segment Noun + noun Etymology AI details From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”). *sek- Proto-Indo-European segmentum Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Business & Commerce External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # segment **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun, verb **IPA (US):** /ˈsɛɡmɛnt/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈsɛɡ.mənt/ **Frequency rank:** 12761 ## Meanings 1. one of the parts that something is divided into 2. a separate part of a broadcast, market, or group 3. to divide something into separate parts ## Examples - She peeled the orange and ate one segment. - The show ended with a segment on healthy cooking. - The company segments its customers by age. ## Derived Forms - bisegment - diplosegment - haplosegment - hemisegment - intersegment - intrasegment - macrosegment - microsegment - midsegment - monosegment - multisegment - oversegment ## Related Forms - secant - sect - section - sector - segmentation - somite ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *sek- - Root: segmentum ## Etymology From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”). ## AI Etymology Segment is from Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”). Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *sek-, Latin segmentum. In current use it includes senses such as one of the parts that something is divided into and a separate part of a broadcast, market, or group. ## Topics - Business & Commerce markdown