noun ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act or an instance of dividing into segments. countable, uncountable

   "Near-synonym: sectioning"

2. 2
   the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart wordnet
3. 3
   The state of being divided into segments countable, uncountable
4. 4
   (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum wordnet
5. 5
   The partitioning of an image into groups of pixels countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

divisionabstractionalienationanalysisanalyzationanatomizing

Antonyms

All antonyms

desegmentationnonsegmentation

Example

More examples

"Numerous violent and sudden casualties among C++ developers are caused by segmentation faults every year."

Etymology

From segment + -ation.

Related phrases

benefit segmentationmarket segmentationsegmentation clocksegmentation faultself-segmentation

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