Series vs. Segment — What's the Difference?

A number of objects or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.

Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided

A set of stamps, coins, or currency issued in a particular period.

A part of a figure cut off by a line or plane intersecting it.

Physics & Chemistry A group of objects related by linearly varying successive differences in form or configuration

Each of the series of similar anatomical units of which the body and appendages of some animals are composed, such as the visible rings of an earthworm's body.

(Mathematics) The sum of a sequentially ordered finite or infinite set of terms.

The smallest distinct part of a spoken utterance, especially with regard to vowel and consonant sounds rather than stress or intonation.

(Geology) A group of rock formations closely related in time of origin and distinct as a group from other formations.

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections

(Grammar) A succession of coordinate elements in a sentence.

Any of the parts into which something can be divided

A succession of publications that present an extended narrative, such as a comic book series, or that have similar subjects or similar formats, such as a series of cookbooks.

The portion of a line between any two points on the line.

A succession of individual programs presented as parts of a unified whole, such as the set of episodes of a television show or a podcast.

The area bounded by a chord and the arc of a curve subtended by the chord.

(Sports) A number of games played by the same two teams, often in succession.

The portion of a sphere cut off by two parallel planes.

(Baseball) The World Series.

(Biology) A clearly differentiated subdivision of an organism or part, such as a metamere.

(Linguistics) A set of vowels or diphthongs related by ablaut, as in sing, sang, sung, and song.

To divide or become divided into segments.

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

A length of some object.

(broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

(mathematics) The sequence of partial sums $\backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^n\{a\_i\}$ of a given sequence a_i.

(mathematics) A portion. Category:en:Shapes

A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.

(zoology) An unranked taxon.

(geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

(botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

(geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.

(commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

(topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.

(phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

(science) A portion.

(electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit, in series.

(phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.

(botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.

(zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.

In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.

(broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

(computing) An Ethernet bus.

A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; - opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.

(computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

(travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.

Similar things placed in order or happening one after another;

(heraldry) A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.

A serialized set of programs;

(ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

A periodical that appears at scheduled times

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams;

A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection;

A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.

(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other;

To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;

One of the parts into which something naturally divides;

Divide into segments;

Divide or split up;