certain segment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcertainandsegment
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certain
adjective
uk/ˈsɜː.tən/us/ˈsɝː.tən/
having no doubt or knowing exactly that something is true, or known to be true, correct, exact, ...
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segment
noun[C]
uk/ˈseɡ.mənt/us/ˈseɡ.mənt/
one of the smaller groups or amounts that a larger group or amount can be ...
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(Definition ofcertainandsegmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Because of this intra-group similarity, consumers within acertainsegmentare likely to respond somewhat similarly to a given marketing strategy8.
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A careful reading of the current trend indicates that acertainsegmentof today's archaeological community seeks to revise the notion of reflexivity to eliminate its epistemological foundation.
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Many regulations have specification related to speed limits ofcertainsegmentof the track based on the crosslevel.
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Most of these magazines positioned themselves as complete women's magazines, rather than focusing on acertainsegment.
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It can vary from hitting only quarter steps, avoiding poison steps, or using special modifiers to play acertainsegmentof a song.
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To the extent, then, that certain segments must resist assimilation, those outputs that are shadowspecified represent optimal outputs with respect to both alignment and faithfulness.
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What changes at first is the specification of certain segments in a few lexical items.
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At this point, certain segments (in this example, fricatives) will be prevented from occurring in the output, regardless of the lexical properties of words.
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He described broad universal moral ideals, avoiding rhetoric that condemned certain segments of the polis as lacking moral virtue.
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The molecular conformation, or secondary structure, is also highly ordered, at least for certain segments of the amino-acid sequence.
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The annulment decision, it seems, is necessary evidence of the desire by certain segments of society to maintain their stranglehold on power.
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However, de facto standard usage is already emerging within and across certain segments of the community.
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Certain segments, such as liquids, were also found to be more difficult than other segments in the same onset.
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Segmental autonomy can come in the form of giving certain segments, whether ethnically, religiously, or culturally based, control over their own schooling systems or cultural institutions.
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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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