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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   division into parcels; especially the dividing up of a large amount of land between the inhabitants of it so that each person receives an equal amount of land. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   the division into parcels wordnet
3. 3
   A map or annotation associating spatial locations (e.g., voxels) with parcel identities (e.g., anatomically or functionally circumscribed regions); the map or annotation that results from or delineates the results of parcellation (sense 1) countable, uncountable

Etymology

From parcel + -ation.

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