segment
noun
one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section.
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Wherefore ar, the oblong of the unequall segments, with s the quadrate of the intersegment, is equall to iy the quadrate of the said bisegment.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell