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Segmentation may mean:

• Market segmentation, in economics and marketing

Biology

• A process of morphogenesis that divides a metazoan body into a series of semi-repetitive segments
• Segmentation (biology), the structure that results from said process

Computing

• Packet segmentation, the process of dividing a data packet into smaller units for transmission over a data communications network.
• Memory segmentation, the division of main memory into memory subsystems
• Network segmentation, the splitting of a computer network into subnetworks, each being a network segment or network layer
• Segmentation (image processing), the partitioning of a digital image into two or more regions
• In natural language processing:
  • Speech segmentation, the identification of word boundaries in speech
  • Text segmentation, the identification of lexical units in writing systems

[edit] See also

• Part
• Division (disambiguation)
• Split
• Segment
• Segmentation fault

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