segmentation

English

Etymology

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
    Near-synonym: sectioning
    Hyponyms: bisecting, bisection, bisegmentation; trisecting, trisection, trisegmentation; quadrisecting, quadrisection; hypersegmentation, oversegmentation; undersegmentation; presegmentation; resegmentation; self-segmentation; benefit segmentation, biosegmentation, market segmentation
  2. The state of being divided into segments
  3. The partitioning of an image into groups of pixels

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From segmenter +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

Noun

segmentation f (plural segmentations)

  1. segmentation

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