Sĕg'ment, n.
[Fr. segment, Sp. & It. segmento, Lat. segmentum, from secare, to cut, cut off.]
Sense 1. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange, or of a compound or divided leaf.
Sense 2. (Geom.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord.
Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes.
