segmentation

The act or an instance of dividing into segments.

Noun

  1. The act or an instance of dividing into segments.
    • Near-synonym: sectioning

    Synonyms: sectioning

    Antonyms: desegmentation nonsegmentation

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

Origin

Etymology tree English segment 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.

Forms

segmentations

Derived

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