segmental
Speech parts
1. segmental - Adjective
2. segmental - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Relating to, or being, a segment.
Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae.
Of or pertaining to the segmental organs.
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Grandiose building projects were supported by the government, including the erection of towering Buddhist Chinese pagodas and the construction of enormous bridges (wood or stone, trestle or segmental arch bridge ).
Arches Arches are semi-circular or (in the Mannerist style) segmental.
For short, landscaping walls, gravity walls made from dry-stacked (mortarless) stone or segmental concrete units (masonry units) are commonly used.
Most characteristics of the original design are maintained, subtly transformed to give more weight to the central section, where della Porta uses, among other motifs, a low triangular pediment overlaid on a segmental one above the main door.
Heavy smoking results in a radiation dose of 160 mSv/year to localized spots at the bifurcations of segmental bronchi in the lungs from the decay of polonium-210.
Mauthner cells are not the only identified neurons in fish—there are about 20 more types, including pairs of "Mauthner cell analogs" in each spinal segmental nucleus.