| 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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