Segment vs Interval - 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.
A distance in space.
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A period of time.
(music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
(mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
(chiefly, British) An intermission.
(sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
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(cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play
As nouns the difference between segment and interval
is that segment is a length of some object while interval is a distance in space.As a verb segment
is to divide into segments or sections.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.
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.}}
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 ----interval
English
(wikipedia interval)Noun
(en noun)- 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval .
- the interval between contractions during childbirth
citation, page= , passage=Spain made three substitutions at the interval , sending on former Arsenal captain Fabregas, Chelsea's Juan Mata and Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina for Xavi, David Silva and Casillas.}}