Noun

(en noun)

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

* (Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))

The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.

# (label) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.

# One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.

# (label) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.

# (label) One of the objects in a set.

A small part of the whole.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}

Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.

A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.

The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.

A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.

A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.

(label) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.

* 2011 , Richard Wagner, Creating Web Pages All-in-One For Dummies

The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment' of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical ' segment was called a reading stone,

(label) A portion.

# A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.

# (label) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

# (label) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.

(label) A portion.

# (label) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

# (label) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

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In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

# (label) 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.

(label) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 29, author=Nathan Rabin

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) , passage=In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.}}

(label) An Ethernet bus.

(label) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

(label) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.