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The act of dividing or partitioning
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segmentation
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Segmentation \Seg`men*ta"tion\, n. The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity (Biol.), the cavity ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Segmentation may mean: Market segmentation , in economics and marketing Biology Segmentation (biology) , in morphology , a series of semi-repetitive segments; in developmental biology , a process of morphogenesis that divides a metazoan body into a series ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "a cutting in small pieces;" 1851 of cells, from segment (v.) + -ation .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN market ▪ Last year he successfully introduced the concept of market segmentation into a major corporate division. ▪ The chapter begins by explaining the importance of market segmentation within the study of marketing. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or an instance of dividing into segments. 2 The state of being divided into segments.
Usage examples of segmentation.
Without entering into details it may be mentioned that in the mosses it proceeds both in the archegonium and antheridium by the segmentation of an apical cell, while this is not the case in the liverworts.
Our segmentation would seem to weaken here but not if we gaze carefully into the artful enate process taking place.
The chordates are one of three segmented phyla — segmentation involving a division of the body structure into similar sections, as a train is divided into separate coaches.
Still later, there will be market segmentation not simply along occupational lines, but along socio-economic and psycho-social lines as well.
The clearest evidence of segmentation in the adult human is the repeated vertebrae of the spinal cord (one to each segment) and the repeating line of ribs attached to twelve of them.
The nervous system also shows the existence of segmentation, and does so most clearly in the repeated and regular emergence of pairs of spinal nerves from between vertebrae all down the spinal column.