segmented
adjective
seg·ment·ed
ˈseg-ˌmen-təd 
seg-ˈmen-təd
: divided into or composed of segments or sections
segmented worms
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Day 3: Into the Cold (and the Weird Sleep)
Soreness: 5/10
Sleep Quality: 5/10
Energy: 5/10
Mood: 5/10
Mental Clarity: 6/10
Warrior Level: 6
This was the first full day with segmented sleep.
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Marisa McMillan, Outside, 29 Dec. 2025
The empire relied heavily on accounting systems to manage labor, and the segmented, numerical layout of the Band of Holes would have lent itself to tracking these sorts of transactions.
—New Atlas, 21 Dec. 2025
Emma Flickinger had traveled from Menlo Park to participate, and was looking closely at a worm with tendrils and a segmented body that nobody in attendance had ever seen before.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2025
Gold said Ascension likely could have blocked the weaker Kerberos implementation in its main network and supported it only in a segmented part that tightly restricted the accounts that could use it.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
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Marisa McMillan, Outside, 29 Dec. 2025
The empire relied heavily on accounting systems to manage labor, and the segmented, numerical layout of the Band of Holes would have lent itself to tracking these sorts of transactions.
—New Atlas, 21 Dec. 2025
Emma Flickinger had traveled from Menlo Park to participate, and was looking closely at a worm with tendrils and a segmented body that nobody in attendance had ever seen before.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 20 Nov. 2025
Gold said Ascension likely could have blocked the weaker Kerberos implementation in its main network and supported it only in a segmented part that tightly restricted the accounts that could use it.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
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segmented
adjective
seg·ment·ed
ˈseg-ˌment-əd, seg-ˈ
1
: having or made up of segments
2
: being a cell in which the nucleus is divided into lobes connected by a fine filament
segmented neutrophils
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