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Segmental

adjective

Divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds.

Having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters. Synonyms: metameric, segmented.

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"Segmental" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been introduced half a century before. It may be that the Crusaders saw it in the East and brought it home. It may be that it originated from the quadripartite vaulting of the Normans, the segmental groins of which, crossing diagonally, produced to appearance the pointed arch. It may be that it was derived from that mystical figure of a pointed oval form, the vesica piscis. It may be, lastly, that it was suggested simply by the intersection ...

— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley

... 1st, The segmental or convex washboard, E, actuated by levers, D, in combination with the reciprocating washboard, F, and connecting arms, H, substantially in the manner and for the ...

— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

Words linked to "Segmental" : divided, zoological science, linguistics, metameric, zoology