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facet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French facette.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fæs?t/
  • Rhymes: -æs?t

Noun

facet (plural facets)

  1. Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
  5. (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
    the articular facet of a bone
  6. (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
  7. (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
  8. (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
  9. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. (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)

  1. A length of some object.
  2. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
  3. (mathematics) A portion.
    1. A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
    2. (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
    3. (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
    4. (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
  4. (sciences) A portion.
    1. (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
    2. (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
    3. (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.
  5. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
  6. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
  7. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
  8. (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.
  9. (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)

  1. (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)

  1. 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

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. a segment

References

  • “segment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French segment, from Latin segmentum.

Noun

segment n (plural segmente)

  1. segment

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s??ment/
  • Hyphenation: seg?ment

Noun

sègment m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

  1. 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)

  1. segment

Declension

Further reading

  • segment in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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