Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not divided into distinct segments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not divided into segments; noting the egg which has not undergone cleavage, or the embryo or parts of the embryo which show no metameric arrangement of their parts.
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- adjective Not
segmented
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a body that is not divided into segments
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Examples
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Slight differences in rates or slight differences in interaction parameters between molecules and cells can change an organism that is a continuous unsegmented form to an organism that's segmented.
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I am also curious about their projection of steel consumption, because a lot of the steel was indeed consumed domestically construction and builfding and such unsegmented trend analysis may be more accurate..
Commodity demand and the China factor Sun Bin 2005
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I am also curious about their projection of steel consumption, because a lot of the steel was indeed consumed domestically construction and builfding and such unsegmented trend analysis may be more accurate..
Archive 2005-10-01 Sun Bin 2005
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Now anglers can find many three-piece and four-piece baitcasting and spinning travel rods that are the equal of their unsegmented counterparts.
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Now anglers can find many three-piece and four-piece baitcasting and spinning travel rods that are the equal of their unsegmented counterparts.
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The identification and analysis of the maternal genes affecting the segmentation pattern revealed that the anteroposterior axis is controlled by three groups of genes, each independently determining a subset of the pattern, the segmented anterior or posterior, or the unsegmented terminal regions of the embryo (35-37).
Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes 1995
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In situations in which load is heavy and the structure is relatively unsegmented, intention is lost in context-dependent flows of problems, solutions, people, and choice opportunities.
Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989
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The first, a specialized structure, is one that is decomposable into substructures that are unsegmented.
Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989
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On the one hand, the destruction of existing institutions tends to reduce institutional constraints on noninstitutional forces, thus reinforcing forces associated with the possession of noninstitutional resources and moving a temporal sorting system more toward an unsegmented structure.
Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989
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The unsegmented structures that are most commonly discussed are those in which any decision maker, any problem, and any solution has access to any choice situation.
Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989
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