1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 98 Antichrist..deuiseth by councels and synods hat all signes, images, seagments or reliques of holy men..should be adored.

c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) ii. v. §7 This s sum haldes to be a segment of his, and therfoer now almost al wrytes his for it, as if it wer a corruption.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 35 The Segments and Cuttings of some Plants.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. i. 7 He also quarrelled with him the oftenest, and testified the least forbearance at the publican's segments of psalmody.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 401 The truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages.

1713 P. Blair Let. 1 Aug. in Misc. Observ. (1718) 104 Flowers..divided into five Segments.

1723 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia i. 18 The Bottom Leaves generally consist of five Pair of Segments.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 80 Segment (lacinium), the small parts of a leaf, cup, or petal, included between the incisions.

?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. vi Borage... Calyx of five segments, very deeply cleft.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4. 98 When a leaf is divided or parted and these primary lobes again lobed or cleft, the lobes of first order are called Segments (sometimes divisions or partitions), and the parts of these, Lobes.

1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 28 The only forms used by the ancients were the semicircle.., the segment.., and ellipse.., all of which continued prevalent till the pointed arch appeared.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 146 The pointed arch had obtained universal predominance, though without involving the rejection of the semicircular or the plain segment.

1893 J. Tuckey tr. B. Hatschek Amphioxus 119 Thereby is introduced the later characteristic curvature of the segment boundaries [of the mesoblastic somite].

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Segment-leaves, are Leaves of Plants divided or cut into many Shreds.

1862 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 9) 192 The Segment Shell consists of thin cast iron cylinders, enclosing a series of segments of the same metal, cast separately, and built upon an iron disc.

1946 R. J. Landry This Fascinating Radio Business iv. 79 A radio program..is usually fifteen minutes, thirty minutes or sixty minutes in length although odd-length segments occur now and then.

1947 H. Bettinger Television Techniques ii. 13 There are limitations imposed by the length of time that can be allotted to a given program segment.

1950 H. J. Skornia et al. Creative Broadcasting ii. 8 The radio day is divided into time segments, determined by the audience available, and what the audience is doing.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 273 A ‘talk’ is a programme or programme segment which consists of one person talking at the microphone.

1976 New Yorker 19 May 133/1 The ‘Today Show’ and ABC's ‘Good Morning America’ also ran segments on Carter.

1982 ‘E. McBain’ Beauty & Beast viii. 127 The television people..probably want to..tape you in Tampa for the eleven o'clock segment there.

1984 N.Y. Times 1 Sept. i. 41/6 ABC, CBS and NBC shared the award for outstanding investigative journalism, for segments of news programs.

1956 Jrnl. Marketing 21 5/2 Recent introduction of a refrigerator with no storage compartment for frozen foods was in response to the distinguishable preferences of the segment of the refrigerator market made up of home freezer owners whose frozen food storage needs had already been met.

1964 Harvard Business Rev. Mar. 83/1 Sound marketing objectives depend on knowledge of how segments which produce the most customers for a company's brands differ in requirements and susceptibilities from the segments which produce the largest number of customers for competitive brands.

1975 Forbes 15 Feb. 38/3 Arcata is well positioned in the growth segments of the market.

1980 Chem. Week 23 July 29 A downturn in demand for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics, the most dynamic segment of the chlorine market, is a major factor in the slide in chlorine demand.

1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 79/2 The whole yolk is segmented in mammalia.

1877 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (ed. 4) 50 The new cells which are successively segmented off from the terminal cell.

1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 5 The caudal muscles therefore consist of a ‘dorsal’ and ‘ventral’ muscle on each side,..transversely segmented by the membranous septa and the vertebral processes running into it.

1878 A. H. Green et al. Coal: Hist. & Uses iv. 121 The axis, prefiguring what in most vertebrates becomes segmented and ossified into the centra,..retains [etc.].

1959 E. M. Grabbe et al. Handbk. Automation, Computation, & Control II. ii. 130 A discussion of an automatic system which faces the problem of segmenting a program, either data or instructions, into pieces is given by this group.

1962 C. O. Frake in Gladwin & Sturtevant Anthrop. & Human Behavior 75 How do we segment the stream of speech into category-designating units?

1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 202 No matter how much central memory is provided for a computer, it will always be possible to write a program too large to fit. The most common way to handle this situation is to segment the program into overlays.

1972 W. Labov Lang. in Inner City ii. 50 Young black children frequently find it difficult to segment I'm into I am.

1977 Hughes & Michtom Structured Approach to Programming vi. 122 A module..is segmented in the same hierarchical fashion that a system or program is developed.

1912 J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom vi. 149 The blastomeres or separate cells of the segmenting egg.

1959 E. M. Grabbe et al. Handbk. Automation, Computation, & Control II. ii. 130 It is imperative that a programmer be allowed to override any automatic segmenting and allocation system in order to provide increased efficiency.

1977 Hughes & Michtom Structured Approach to Programming vi. 122 Segmenting is best handled at the stepwise refinement stage.