narrow segment

collocation in English

meaningsofnarrowandsegment

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narrow
adjective
uk
/ˈnær.əʊ/us
/ˈner.oʊ/
having a small distance from one side to the other, especially in comparison with ...
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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 ofnarrowandsegmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnarrow segment

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Clearly, however, the university's participants represented a rathernarrowsegmentof the world's population.
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Instead, these will be made readily available only to anarrowsegmentof society.
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A service which confines itself to a morenarrowsegmentof the population, socially and in health-terms, may be jeopardised in the long run.
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With two tramway lines and thousands of cars sharing thisnarrowsegmentof the avenue, large traffic jams occur here during rush hours.
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Its borders are the opening (ostium) of the tube to the endometrial cavity within the uterus and, laterally, the visiblenarrowsegmentof the tube.
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Each leaf is split in half, to the petiole, with each half further divided into 2 - 11 narrow segments.
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The leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and dissected into narrow segments.
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Dark green leaves are divided into narrow segments, and are 1-2 in long.
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However, the yarrow has feathery looking leaves which are pinnately separated into small narrow segments.
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The leaves are up to about 30 centimeters long and are intricately divided into many small, narrow segments.
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The thorax consists of 3 or 4 narrow segments.
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The inflorescence is a very dense cluster of flowers surrounded by bracts which are divided into narrow segments like the leaves.
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The leaves are divided into many narrow segments which are hairless or lightly hairy and bear yellowish resin glands.
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The thorax and pygidium are very regularly divided into up to 23 rather narrow segments, without a furrow within each of the pleurae.
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