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Segmentation

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Segmentation may mean:

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 computer memory into segments
  • Network segmentation, the splitting of a computer network into subnetworks, each being a network segment or network layer
  • Image segmentation, the partitioning of a digital image into two or more regions
  • In natural language processing:

Other uses

  • Market segmentation, in economics and marketing
  • Segmentation (biology), in morphology, a series of semi-repetitive segments; in developmental biology, a process of morphogenesis that divides a metazoan body into a series of semi-repetitive segments
  • Segmentation contractions (or movements), a type of gastric motility in physiology

See also