segmentation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English segment

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English segmentation

From segment + -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

segmentation (countable and uncountable, plural segmentations)

1. The act or an instance of dividing into segments.

   Antonyms: desegmentation, nonsegmentation

   Hyponyms: bisecting, bisection, bisegmentation; trisecting, trisection, trisegmentation; quadrisecting, quadrisection; hypersegmentation, oversegmentation; undersegmentation; presegmentation; resegmentation; self-segmentation; benefit segmentation, biosegmentation, market segmentation

   Near-synonym: sectioning

2. The state of being divided into segments
3. The partitioning of an image into groups of pixels

Derived terms

• autosegmentation
• benefit segmentation
• biosegmentation
• bisegmentation
• cosegmentation
• desegmentation
• hypersegmentation
• market segmentation
• multisegmentation
• myosegmentation
• nonsegmentation
• oversegmentation
• presegmentation
• pseudosegmentation
• resegmentation
• segmentational
• segmentation clock
• segmentation fault
• self-segmentation
• subsegmentation
• trisegmentation
• undersegmentation

Translations

the act or an instance of dividing into segments

• Bulgarian: делене (bg) n (delene), сегментиране n (segmentirane)
• Czech: segmentace f
• Finnish: segmentointi (fi)
• French: segmentation (fr) f
• German: Segmentierung (de) f
• Greek: κατάτμηση (el) f (katátmisi)
• Japanese: セグメンテーション (ja) (segumentēshon)
• Korean: 세분화(細分化) (sebunhwa)
• Persian: بخش‌بندی (baxšbandi)
• Romanian: segmentare (ro) f
• Russian: сегменти́рование (ru) n (segmentírovanije), деле́ние (ru) n (delénije), сегмента́ция (ru) f (segmentácija)
• Tagalog: pagpapaputol
• Ukrainian: сегментува́ння n (sehmentuvánnja), сегмента́ція f (sehmentácija)

the state of being divided into segments

• Bulgarian: сегментация f (segmentacija)
• French: segmentation (fr) f
• German: Segmentierung (de) f
• Hungarian: szelvényezettség
• Romanian: segmentație (ro) f
• Russian: сегмента́ция (ru) f (segmentácija), деле́ние (ru) n (delénije)
• Ukrainian: сегмента́ція f (sehmentácija)

French

Etymology

From segmenter +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

segmentation f (plural segmentations)

1. segmentation

Further reading

• “segmentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012