Clause and Segment

Clause

Clause noun - A separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will).

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Segment and clause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Segment" instead a noun "Clause".

Nearby Word: clausal

Segment noun - One of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled.

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Clause and segment are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Clause" instead a noun "Segment".

special	special clause	special segment
similar	similar clause	similar segment
specific	specific clause	specific segment
short	short clause	short segment
Other adjectives: certain, original, entire, mandatory, new, early, final, extra, impossible, last.

One segment of The Daily Show showed a senator made an addition to a bill, then another added a "but-for" clause that said the other one couldn't add his.

Source: What's a Henway?
But Forrest Whitaker had a clause in his contract that stated that the segment he appeared in ("The Follow", directed by Wong Kar Wai and also featuring Mickey Rourke and supermodel Adriana Lima) would only be distributed on the Internet, so some DVDs lacked that segment.

Source: Missing Episode / New Media
Alien Non-Interference Clause: Meronym in the final segment is from a more advanced Earth civilization, not an alien, but this still applies to her.

Source: Literature / Cloud Atlas

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