segmentary
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˈsɛɡmənˌtɛri/
- The segmentary nature of the project meant that different teams worked on separate parts independently.
- segmentary lineage
- segmentary structure
Examples
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In the traditional segmentary system, no leader had power over his followers solely by virtue of a position in a political hierarchy.
Academic text (1992) -
Moreover, segmentary structures are not precapitalist or premodern relics; they have coexisted and flourished with modernity and capitalism.
Academic text (2008) -
The conflict itself was produced by the corporate and segmentary structure, but the conflict between elders and youth was experienced in individual terms.
Academic text (2000) -
All these possibilities are entailed in the segmentary model of the social order.
Academic text (1990) -
Villagers do not often explicitly acknowledge these segmentary properties.
Academic text (1990) -
Non-tribal: Streams are not completely self-sufficient, though, in the sense of segmentary tribes.
Blog text (34) -
The segmentary nature of GUMs and their orientation toward networking can make them almost imperceptible as movements.
Academic text (2008) -
Contemporary anthropological accounts have focused on tribe-state relations and on tribes as construed within segmentary lineage theory.
Academic text (1995) -
The Zapatistas, for example, consider segmentary networking along the traditional model of "bees" and "ants" to be an end in itself, noting that such organizing empowers communities.
Academic text (2008) -
Maya activism has changed form repeatedly over the centuries but has always featured grassroots networking and a segmentary mobilization structure.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
7
7.0
Organized so different parts do not share information
2
5.5
Divided into smaller sections like boxes or rooms
2
5.5
With a body made of several similar parts, like a worm or insect
2
3.9
Divided into parts to keep things separate, for example a plate with compartments
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4.4
Having separate parts that join together or work by themselves
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9.1
Viewing a group or system as separate, independent parts rather than a whole
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8.8
Divided into separate parts or sections
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7.4
Organized into separate parts with little connection
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7.7
Causing things to be divided into parts
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6.8
Made of several connected parts or sections
Relating to separate speech sounds like vowels and consonants
Relating to dividing a beat in music into smaller parts to play rhythms correctly
Antonyms
How Segmented
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Segmentary comes from the familiar word segment, which means 'a cut' or 'a piece', like a slice of an orange. So segmentary describes something made of separate 'parts' or sections.