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Year to date operating results for the segment were affected by a highly competitive bidding environment for construction services and lower demand for higher-margin construction materials.

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  1. noun Any of the parts into which something can be divided: segments of the community; a segment of a television program.
  2. noun Mathematics The portion of a line between any two points on the line.
  3. noun Mathematics The area bounded by a chord and the arc of a curve subtended by the chord.
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  • Sales for the segment were also higher for the first six months of the 2009 fiscal year compared with sales in the same period last year.
  • Gross profit for the segment was also higher for the first six months of the 2009 fiscal year compared with the same period last year.
  • The key factor in the fourth quarter performance of this segment is the unprecedented 35\% drop in the price of aluminum and more than 50\% since mid-summer. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • So maybe this segment was all just a ploy to bait Jeezy -- or, as erstwhile comedian Miller inexplicably called him, "Emphysema" -- to come on the show. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • This segment should be at the top of the show right after Talking Points and then the B. Hussein interview. —  Tammy Bruce
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  1. Latin segmentum, from secāre, to cut; see sek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French segment = Spanish Portuguese segmento = Italian segmento, semmento, from Latin segmentum, a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel, Middle Latin in geometry (transitive Greek τμῆμα) a segment, from secure, cut: see secant, and cf. section, sector.
  2. from segment, n.
 

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