Vehicle category broken down according to characteristics Compact cars, Sports Utility Vehicles and Full-Size Vans are examples of segments used in J D Power and Associates studies
- a length of river characterized by limited variation in hydrologic and physiographic characteristics In general, segments would be defined where tributaries significantly affect hydrologic, sediment, or water-quality characteristics Segments generally contain multiple reaches
A segment of a market is one part of it, considered separately from the rest. Three-to-five day cruises are the fastest-growing segment of the market Women's tennis is the market leader in a growing market segment -- women's sports
A part of a document, usually limited by punctuation - periods, tabs, paragraph marks, or custom tags The segment or sentence is the fundamental unit of information stored in translation memory with its corresponding bilingual matching segment
A designated subarea (subset of the search area) to be searched by one or more specifically assigned search resources The size of a segment is determined by the search planner The boundaries of a segment are identifiable both in the field and on a map and are based on searchability, not probability
one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"
A portion of the Serial Item/Contribution Identifier comprising a set of related data elements
A discrete portion of a network, such as a LAN, without routers or bridges Bridges and routers can be used to isolate network traffic to specific segments
a predefined and identified set of functionally related data elements values which are identified by their sequential positions within the set A segment starts with a segment tag and ends with a segment terminator It can be a service segment or a user data segment
one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange" divide or split up; "The cells segmented" divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word
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 (limited) length of cable - segments can be joined by repeaters (rare), bridges (common), routers or switches (which are hardware logic bridges and routers)
Section of a network that is bounded by bridges, routers, hubs, or switches; dividing an Ethernet into multiple segments is a common way to increase bandwidth on a LAN