Segment
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Segment may mean:
- an internal section of a citrus fruit
- Market segment, the smaller subgroups comprising a market
- Segment (broadcasting), part of a television or radio show
- Segment (travel), a basis for billing travel, especially by aircraft
Computing
- Memory segment, the portion of computer memory which may be addressed by a single index register
- Image segment created in computer vision
- String segment, the substring of a pattern delimited by two don't cares or one don't care and beginning or end of the pattern
- Network segment, a part of a larger computer network
- A protocol data unit of the transport layer in computing
Geometry
- Line segment, part of a line that is bounded by two end points
- Circular segment, the area which is "cut off" from the rest of the circle by a secant or a chord
Science
- Segment (biology), a repeated part of the metazoan body
- Segment (anthropology)
- Segment (linguistics), a consonant or vowel
- Segment (rocketry), a controlled rocket motor burn of specified duration