Segment vs Lith - What's the difference?
segment | lith |
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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, title= (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.
A limb; any member of the body.
A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
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(label) A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.
Owndom; property.
As nouns the difference between segment and lith
is that segment is a length of some object while lith is a limb; any member of the body or lith can be owndom; property or lith can be a gate; a gap in a fence.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.
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