2 Metaphors for segments

The Socialists comprise 111 out of 397 members of the House, so their segment of the fan is the largest of all.

Strip off the legs, and you will find that each pair is attached to a very definite segment of the under wall of the body; but these segments, instead of being the lower parts of free rings, as in the tail, are such parts of rings which are all solidly united and bound together; and the like is true of the jaws, the feelers, and the eye- stalks, every pair of which is borne upon its own special segment.

2 Metaphors for  segments