| segment | (noun) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object | Synonyms: section |
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| (noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides | - |
| (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
| (verb) divide or split up | - |
| segmental | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: metameric, segmented |
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| (adjective) divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds | - |
| segmentation | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization |
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| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: cleavage |
| segmented | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: metameric, segmental |
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| segno | (noun) (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated | - |
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| segregate | (noun) someone who is or has been segregated | - |
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| (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
| (verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
| (verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
| segregated | (adjective) separated or isolated from others or a main group | Synonyms: unintegrated |
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| segregation | (noun) the act of segregating or sequestering | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups | Synonyms: separatism |
| (noun) (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes | - |
| segregationism | (noun) a political orientation favoring political or racial segregation | - |
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| segregationist | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregator |
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| segregator | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregationist |
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| segue | (noun) the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another | - |
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| (verb) proceed without interruption; in music or talk | - |