Collocations withsegment
These are words often used in combination withsegment.
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adjacent segment
Sufficiently identical adjacent segment avoidance thus needn't depend on assimilation per se, only on the potential for some independently motivated process to create adjacent identical segments.
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certain segment
Over the last decade or so, the notion of postmodernism (however this is to be defined) has been the focus of intense discussion in certain segments of academia.
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distinct segments
As is shown, eight distinct segments are defined in the figure.
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final segment
Duration of words is measured in milliseconds from the onset of the initial segment to the offset of the final segment.
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growing segment
Currently, the largest category of organic production is fresh produce, although organic dairy was the most rapidly growing segment in the 1990s36.
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large segment
During eye dissection, a large segment of the optic nerve distal to the eyecup was preserved.
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multiple segments
The research hypothesis is that there are multiple segments of consumers who are likely to purchase natural beef, and that different segments are motivated by different factors.
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narrow segment
Clearly, however, the university's participants represented a rather narrow segment of the world's population.
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opening segment
The opening segment was played on a nylon-string classical guitar, while the live versions were played on an electric guitar.
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particular segment
This type of study is especially valuable to phonologists who might want to confirm the feature status of a particular segment.
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posterior segment
The gelatinous vitreous was removed from the posterior segment, using a pair of tweezers.
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preceding segment
When combined with a high vowel in the preceding segment, the assibilation in verbs increases up to 24%.
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regular segment
His style interested them so much that he was given a regular segment on the show.
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segment of society
Instead, these will be made readily available only to a narrow segment of society.
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segment register
For data accesses, the segment register can be explicitly specified (using a segment override prefix) to use any of the four segment registers.
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short segment
The top panel shows morphology of the filaments and the bottom panel shows the subunit arrangements within a short segment.
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significant segment
We have failed a significant segment of our population.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
small segment
Two infinite parallel vortex sheets were disturbed, first symmetrically and then non-symmetrically, over a small segment of their length.
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specific segment
Analysis of variance confirmed the relations predicted for specific segment-duration comparisons.
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thoracic segment
No adult thoracic segment known.
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vertical segment
If a point x is the top of a maximal chain, then its corresponding diagonal line does not cross any vertical segment.
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