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facet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French facette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæs?t/
- Rhymes: -æs?t
Noun
facet (plural facets)
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
- Synonym: aspect
- The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.
- (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
- the articular facet of a bone
- (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
- (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
Derived terms
- multifaceted
- facetal
Translations
Verb
facet (third-person singular simple present facets, present participle faceting or facetting, simple past and past participle faceted or facetted)
- To cut a facet into a gemstone.
Usage notes
- Faceting and faceted are more common in the US. Facetting and facetted are more common in the UK.
Translations
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French facette (“facet”), diminutive of face.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fas?t/, [fa?s?d?]
Noun
facet c (singular definite facetten, plural indefinite facetter)
- facet
Declension
Further reading
- facet on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- “facet” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French facette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa??s?t/
- Hyphenation: fa?cet
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
facet n (plural facetten, diminutive facetje n)
- facet
Derived terms
- facetoog
Descendants
- Afrikaans: faset
- ? Indonesian: faset
Polish
Etymology
From Latin fac?tus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa.t?s?t/
Noun
facet m pers (diminutive facecik, feminine facetka)
- (colloquial) guy, fellow, chap
Declension
Further reading
- facet in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- facet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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segment
English
Etymology
From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secare (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- noun
- (UK, US) enPR: s?g?m?nt, IPA(key): /?s??.m?nt/
- verb
- (UK) IPA(key): /s???m?nt/
- (US) enPR: s?g?m?nt, s?g-m?nt?, IPA(key): /?s??m?nt/, /s???m?nt/
Noun
segment (plural segments)
- A length of some object.
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- (mathematics) A portion.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
- (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- (sciences) A portion.
- (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- (computing) An Ethernet bus.
- (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
Synonyms
- (part or section of a whole): lith
- (straight path): line segment
- (area of a circle): circular segment
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- seven-segment
Related terms
- seven-segment display
Related terms
Translations
Verb
segment (third-person singular simple present segments, present participle segmenting, simple past and past participle segmented)
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide into segments or sections.
- Segment the essay by topic.
Hyponyms
- supreme
Translations
Further reading
- segment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- segment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin segmentum.
Noun
segment m (plural segments)
- segment
Derived terms
- segmentar
Further reading
- “segment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “segment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “segment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “segment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Latin segmentum (“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”)
Noun
segment
- segment
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French segment, from Latin segmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?x?m?nt/
- Hyphenation: seg?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
segment n (plural segmenten, diminutive segmentje n)
- A segment.
Derived terms
- bolsegment
- cirkelsegment
- lijnsegment
- segmentaal
- segmentboog
- segmentrand
Related terms
- sectie
- segmentatie
- segmenteren
Descendants
- Afrikaans: segment
- ? West Frisian: segmint
French
Etymology
From Latin segmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
segment m (plural segments)
- segment (all senses)
Further reading
- “segment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin segmentum
Noun
segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment or segmenter, definite plural segmenta or segmentene)
- a segment
References
- “segment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “segment” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin segmentum
Noun
segment n (definite singular segmentet, indefinite plural segment, definite plural segmenta)
- a segment
References
- “segment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French segment, from Latin segmentum.
Noun
segment n (plural segmente)
- segment
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??ment/
- Hyphenation: seg?ment
Noun
sègment m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- segment
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
From Latin segmentum (“cutting”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?ment/
- Hyphenation: seg?ment
Noun
segment m (genitive singular segmentu, nominative plural segmenty, genitive plural segmentov, declension pattern of dub)
- segment
Declension
Further reading
- segment in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
segment From the web:
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