Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Division into segments.
- n. Embryology See cleavage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The act or an instance of dividing into segments.
- n. The state of being divided into segments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of cutting into segments; a division into segments; the condition of being divided into segments; the manner in which a segmented part is divided.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum
- n. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
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Examples
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But I do wonder if extending the segmentation is appropriate.
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Significant revenues from other categories may eventually return to newspapers, magazines and broadcast entities, when new media segmentation is better understood.
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Also, to Twags point below, segmentation is really important -- especially with a limited marketing budget, it's also a tough exercise sometimes but totally worth it.
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That being said, segmentation is a blunt instrument.
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I have also continued to be interested in segmentation genes, as well as genes affecting segmental identity.
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Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus decided to find out how segmentation is controlled by genes in the newly fertilized egg of the Drosophila fruit fly.
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In particular, the recognition engine preferably applies a word segmentation model to the ink information it is receiving on-the-fly.
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Mr. Schultz has said that he sees "segmentation" -- carving out new segments of the business that appeal to different clientele -- as a way of combating the sales slowdown and appealing to both affluent and penny-pinching customers.
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It's important to create what Dr. Jay Mulki calls "segmentation" when you work at home.
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It's called segmentation, and it shows that we have - now more than ever - the ability to shape our own realities.
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