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Segment Latin N Whole(使完整 Segmentum Division 部份 Segmənt

单词 segment
音标 ['segmənt]
解释 n.部份
红宝书 【英】 n. 部份( bit, fragment)
【考】 反义词:make whole(使完整)
【记】 seg(=sect 部份)+ment→部份
【同】 参考:segmentable( 可分割的);segmenta l(部份的,片断的)
字源 segment (n.)
1560s, from Latin segmentum "a strip or piece cut off, a cutting, strips of colored cloth," from secare "to cut" (see section (n.)), with euphonious alteration of -c- to -g- before -m-. Latin segmentum was used in Medieval Latin as a geometry term, translating Greek tmema, and the word was first picked up in English in this sense. Meaning "segmental portion of anything circular" is from 1640s; general sense of "a division, section" is from 1762.
segment (v.)
1859, intransitive, in reference to cell division, from segment (n.). Transitive sense, "divide (something) into segments" is from 1872. Related: Segmented; segmenting.
不择手段背单词 n. 部份
【记】seg = sect部份, ment一部份
【参】segmentable(adj 可分割的); sect(n 宗派)
【反】make whole(使完整)
趣味全助记 【记】g=c sect,section 部份

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