Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, same as
subjoint .
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- noun geometry A
segment wholly contained in another.
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Examples
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As a result, the hip resurfacing implant subsegment, which is rapidly expanding in other geographies, will experience severely limited growth in Japan.
unknown title 2009
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Generally, favoring that approach really just amounts to not really covering all basic health care, just a select subsegment of it.
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Accordingly, anyone wanting to argue that this is a 1994 scenario needs to explain what subsegment of voters they think is going to structurally realign this time.
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And of course there is no such subsegment of voters.
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And Tata Motors Ltd. 's Land Rover is seeking to establish a new subsegment within the luxury compact sport-utility category with its new two-door Range Rover Evoque.
At Paris Car Show, Time to Exhale Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010
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Come on – that group is a mouthpiece not for animal rescue groups – but kennel owners – a snooty subsegment of the dog-breeding industry.
Doggone It, Just Get the Puppy Already - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Again, in 1994 there was a large but concentrated shift among a certain subsegment of voters at the congressional level, a realignment that had been long overdue at that point.
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Worse yet, this signified the exclusion, eradication and extermination of this subsegment from societal discourse, radicalizing Timothy McVeigh and others and causing the OKC man-caused incident.
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Based in Phoenix, Swift claims to be the largest North American truckload carrier, a subsegment of trucking in which an entire trailer is devoted to a single customer.
Swift Shares Edge Up in Debut Lynn Cowan 2010
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Worse yet, this signified the exclusion, eradication and extermination of this subsegment from societal discourse, radicalizing Timothy McVeigh and others and causing the OKC man-caused incident.
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