Segment vs Cube - What's the difference?
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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.
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# 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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# (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.
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(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.
(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
(arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
To form into the shape of a cube.
To cut into cubes.
(UK) to use a Rubik's cube.
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
As verbs the difference between segment and cube
is that segment is to divide into segments or sections while cube is .As a noun segment
is a length of some object.segment
English
(wikipedia segment)Noun
(en noun)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,
- 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.
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Synonyms
* (part or section of a whole) (l) * (straight path) line segment * (area of a circle) circular segmentDerived terms
* circular segment * image segment * line segment * market segment * memory segmentHyponyms
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* * English heteronyms ----cube
English
(wikipedia cube)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a sugar cube
- a stock cube
- the cube of 2 is 8
Synonyms
* regular hexahedron (rare) * (object in the form of a cube) block, brick, die, square block * (number raised to the third power) third powerHypernyms
* hexahedron, cuboidVerb
(cub)- Three cubed can be written as 33, and equals twenty-seven.
- Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
- He likes to cube now and then.
Synonyms
* (to cut into cubes) diceDerived terms
* bath cube * bouillon cube * cube candle * cube out * cube root * cube steak * cube van * cubiform * hypercube * ice cube * Rubik's cube * snub cube * stock cube * sugar cubeSee also
* line segment * square * tesseractEtymology 2
Clipped form of (cubicle) (with intentional reference to their common shape per ), which from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube .